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Hunter's Moon
Randy Wayne White
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0399153705
Release Date: 2007-03-15 |
Book Description
Doc Ford faces his greatest challenge ever, in the stunning new novel by the New York Times-bestselling writer.
Book after book, Randy Wayne White's audience and critical acclaim continue to grow. His most recent thriller, Dark Light, was "one of his brightest novels" (South Florida Sun Sentinel), "darkly marvelous" (Miami Herald), "a compelling readable tale in the justly celebrated Doc Ford series by one of this country's premier crime novelists" (Booklist). With Hunter's Moon, White is ready to take another giant leap.
On a foggy, tropic October night, the full moon burning through the mist, I stopped paddling when I heard unexpected voices. Muted whispers, neither English nor Spanish, the voices of men moving in stealth. They shouldn't have been here. I shouldn't have been here. There were plausible explanations, but I didn't like any of them.
When Ford saves from assassination a controversial former President of the United States who is staying on an island off Florida's west coast, he has no idea what he's just let himself in for. Kal Wilson knows that he has only a short time to live, and he has a full agenda. Just months before, his wife was killed in a plane crash while carrying medical supplies to Nicaragua - a tragic accident, everyone agreed, except Wilson is sure it was no accident, and he intends to do something about it. All he needs right now is someone to spring him loose from his security detail, keep him alive for two weeks, and then get him back. And that someone is Ford...whether he likes it or not....
Rich with passion and vivid, pungent prose and some of the best characters found in suspense fiction today, Hunter's Moon is White's most remarkable novel yet.
Customer Reviews:
Hunter's Moon.......2007-09-25
I have read every one of RWW's novels, and much of his non-fiction. At a booksigning once, someone asked him how he writes so much, and he countered (to that literary audience) with, "how COULDN'T you write if you have it in you?"
He is a certified character with a fascinatiing background. He is among the few writers I watch for new novels from and then read with gusto. He isn't far behind JK Rowling in my need to keep the story going.
I guess it's clear that I am a fan. THIS novel is the best he's produced in a long time, if not ever. He has wonderful character development, and has managed to keep his protagonists fresh. I loved Hunter's Moon.
I would recommend it highly.
One of his best.......2007-08-18
I've been following Doc Ford's adventures for years and have enjoyed White's ability to create such a dynamic character. In Hunter's Moon, Ford gets the chance to confront yet another demon from his past- this time alongside an ex-president. While the plot may at first glance seem like a lot to tackle, in White's capable hands it is beautifully executed and the ending is spectacular. Whether new to the Doc Ford thrillers or a returning reader, Hunter's Moon is a must. This is truly one of his best.
Avoid, Avoid, Avoid.......2007-07-28
Unless you enjoy books with ridiculous plots, characters that are undefined and absurd, and a story that doesn't begin to do what little it does until well into the book, don't buy this book. I'm not familiar with other books by the author, and given my opinions of this one, I cannot imagine finding out. Boy, is this a bad book.
Not the Doc Ford That We Are Used To.......2007-07-25
I have read 12 of the 14 books in the series. Obviously, I love Doc Ford. But his character in this book is different. He leaves Dinkins Bay and his lab with not a look back. He does not long for the solitude of his work. He doesn't express any angst about killing.
If you are new to the Doc Ford series, do not make this your first book to read. Try Shark River or Tampa Burn first.
Hunter's Moon.......2007-07-06
Ok R.W., you're back on track with this one. The extra work(rewrites, editing), is obvious in the polish of the finished book. And taking your time to write a proper ending, one that is deliberate but not a drag, is especially appreciated.
For fans who are new to Randy Wayne White's work, I envy you all the great reads you have in order to catch up on all of the adventures of Doc Ford and the zanies of Dinkin's bay. I've anchored my trawler in that bay(real name Tarpon Bay), many times and no one gets the flavor of those islands like White.
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- A worthy read
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Dirty White Boys
Stephen Hunter
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Release Date: 1995-11-05 |
Book Description
They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them....
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....
Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him....
Richard's survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live...
Armed to the teeth, Lamar and his boys have cut a path of terror across the Southwest, and pushed one good cop into a crisis of honor and conscience. Trooper Bud Pewtie should have died once at Lamar's hands. Now they're about to meet again. And this time, only one of them will walk away....
Customer Reviews:
A worthy read.......2007-08-10
This is a interesting and captivating story of a despicable group of escaped convicts with no morals or redeeming values but still human with their surroundings and their relationships. Very base but still showing that certain human values reign supreme even among those who are without much redeeming value. I found it very entertaining and another good read from Stephen Hunter. I would recommend it to most males but not females, who will likely not realte to the violence. It contains a lot of "beyond belief" scenarios but is still worth the time if you can separate yourself from reality for awhile.
Gettin' Down and Dirty with Hunter!.......2007-07-02
Stephen Hunter has been writing best sellers for years now, and Dirty White Boys takes a break from his main character he is best known for - Bob 'the Nailer' Swagger, who has recently been casted by Mark Whalberg in his first Best Selling novel - Point of Impact - but called Shooter for the big screen.
And even though Hollywood miscasted the main character of Bob Lee Swagger for the big screen, but still managed to make a good action movie, but not the full-blooded greatness of the novel, Hunter's bokk Dirty White Boys proves once again that Hunter is an exceptional novelist.
From the eye-catching opening line to the hardcore first scene and chapter of Dirty White Boys, the reader instantly knows that they are in for a captivating reading experience. When a writer can take three dispicable characters who escape from prison and through the course of the novel turn hatred for white trash that the reader will feel and eventually turn it to understanding and even get to sympathize for the differing jailbirds, from a huge retarded murderer to a nearly harmless artist who is both smart and disturbed, to their fearless leader, Lamar Pye, one of the most colorful and street smart characters that is like a train wreck to read about, you have one helluva roller-coaster ride reading experince from start to finish.
If you like hardcore crime novels that are extremely detailed, both in action sequences as well as deep characterization, then Dirty White Boys will keep you up reading until the wee hours of the morning.
Part of a winning literary trifecta.......2007-03-04
When I was younger, my reading M.O. was fairly simple: I'd find a writer I liked, and then read everything they ever wrote. This worked well for a while, as I worked my way through the offerings of such genre greats as Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch. Over the years, however, my tastes expanded to the point where I could no longer indulge myself that way ("So many books, so little time.") Before Stephen Hunter, I hadn't read three books in a row by the same author in fifteen years.
A good friend of mine turned me on to Hunter, recommending POINT OF IMPACT, wherein the author introduces Bob Lee Swagger, a professional shooter known to his peers as "Bob the Nailer." In POINT, Swagger becomes involved in a conspiracy of massive proportions and has to fall back on the lethal skills he learned in Vietnam in order to extricate himself. The incredible action sequences and the swift pacing of POINT left me anxious for more.
I moved on to DIRTY WHITE BOYS, which has one of the most memorable first lines you'll ever read. DWB tells the story of lawman Bud Pewtie and his encounter with an escaped convict, the savage and wily Lamar Pye. As Pewtie's son says later in BLACK LIGHT, "They were fated somehow, mixed together." Pewtie seems to have a strange affinity for Pye, tracking him against all odds until the two square off in an epic battle at book's end. By now I was well and truly hooked on Hunter.
Imagine my glee when I heard that he had just published another book, the last leg of a loose knit trilogy involving POINT OF IMPACT and DIRTY WHITE BOYS. BLACK LIGHT tells the tale of Russ Pewtie, son of lawman Bud, who decides to write a book about Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father. Russ is fascinated by Earl, who died in a bloody shootout with Jimmie Pye, Lamar's daddy. Pewtie enlists the reluctant Bob Lee's help, and together they travel back to west Arkansas to investigate the strange circumstances of Earl Swagger's death. Their arrival stirs up a world of trouble, and only Bob Lee's extraordinary talent for survival keeps the pair alive.
These novels really cook. Hunter is a truly American phenomenon--his prose evokes Steinbeck (the parallels to OF MICE AND MEN in DIRTY WHITE BOYS really strike a chord) and Faulkner, and his obsession with the past reeks of Ross MacDonald. Don't get me wrong, though, this ain't no "lit'ry" book as Lamar Pye might say. These novels speed along like runaway freight trains--the action is intense, and the suspense Hunter generates is on the level of Forsythe's DAY OF THE JACKAL or David Morrell in TESTAMENT or BLOOD OATH. Hunter also has a sense of humor--if he doesn't leave you sweating, he'll leave you laughing.
Hunter also displays great expertise in the field of weaponry; the pages of these books teem with gun lore and technical minutiae. Guns and rifles play an integral part in these tales, providing insight into the protagonists and the world they inhabit. Hunter may be entirely wrong on the details, but he writes with such authority I doubt that's the case. I'm not a big gun fan, but I found the level of detail fascinating.
Hunter is a powerful, violent, unsettling, entertaining and informative writer. I ended my streak at three straight, but I continue to eagerly snap up any title with Hunter's name on the cover.
a MUST read.......2006-08-02
Warning:
If you read this book you are in danger of missing appointments, staying up late, lack of sleep and your throat will be dry by the time you finished this book.
Hard core action, brutal sometimes and features great characters.
Highly entertaining, well written and really thrilling.
A great follow-up to "Point Of Impact". Couldn't wait for more Stephen Hunter books!
good read, kind of a let down though.......2006-04-19
Jail breaks, Convics on the run, murder, gun fights. it Definately is right up Hunters alley. It was a good read, there were some slow parts where I had to force my self to keep reading. There were also times I couldn't stop. Not Hunters best but alright. I also wouldn't read "Black Light" until you have read this, there are many references back to and characters from "Dirty white Boys"
Book Description
Still the only book on how to judge hunt-seat show classes.
Customer Reviews:
must have!.......2003-07-10
I did not need to read any farther than the first chapter and realized this was a great book! As a judge, I am always looking for updated information on horses. This book has great pictures that explain many problems of hunters today. It is a must have for all judges and trainers and for all disciplines of riders! Thank you Anna-Jane!
A "must have" book!.......2001-09-19
This book explains the many aspects of hunters and Eq. over fences and on the flat. It explains in great detail what the judges want to see and how to get it! I would reccomend this book!
Informative book for all.......2001-05-10
This is a good book for all of us planning on becoming judges. It provides useful information on judging hunters and hunt seat equitation, and provides nice black and white photos as examples. Just the book I needed to learn more about this discipline!
Book Description
A step-by-step guide to performing the death-defying stunts you thought were only possible in the movies.
For the millions of armchair daredevils who made Worst Case Scenario a mega bestzseller, Hunter Fulghum offers an even more hair-raising handbook. The result of persistent probing, diligent research, and outrageous phone calls to institutions like Fort Knox and the Pentagon, Don't Try This at Home gives thrill seekers everywhere the insider information they crave to show them how to perform feats such as:
*Conduct a SWAT Team hostage
*Rappel off the Eiffel Tower
*Borrow the Mona Lisa
*Form an independent nation
*Break into Buckingham Palace
*Catch a great white shark
*Meet aliens at Area 51
Filled with step-by-step instructions, including lists of necessary tools, timing tips, and helpful illustrations, Don't Try This at Home provides the ultimate guide to doing the impossible.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting and goofy.......2007-02-22
Some are more realistic than others, but all are entertaining. I'll certainly allow this book when I start my own nation off the coast of Africa.
Need Something Amusing to Read?.......2006-03-22
I've found Don't Try This At Home to be lighthearted and fun. It's also impractical and seems to be based largely on complete fantasy. What is it about you ask? Think of it as a 264 page Do-It-Yourself guide for the armchair adventurer.
Megalomaniacs will want to skip right to "Form an Independent Nation". In just 8 short pages, Fulghum describes the steps you'd need to complete. Like most of the items in the book, Forming an Independent Nation does have a large number of prerequisites. For example you will need "hard currency", especially if you choose to acquire your nation through peaceful means. Well no worries, just check out Fulghum's section on stealing gold from Fort Knox.
Thrill seekers, there's plenty of material here for you too. Good starting points are "Fly Through the Eye of a Hurricane" or "Guide and Surface a Nuclear Sub through Ice". My personal favorite is "Drive a Tank through a Tornado". Fulghum says the tank is "available from the US Army, contact the Pentagon to arrange purchase or lease". Does anyone have a phone number?
This stuff might work!.......2005-10-18
So help me, a lot of this stuff might actually work... Of course most of their ideas would take more time, money and resources than i'll ever have, but they're fun to think about!
All you need to know about things you don't need to know.......2004-05-12
Imagine calling Fort Knox and asking the best way to break in and steal the gold. Don't have the guts for it? Don't worry, because Hunter Fulghum has done it for you. He has contacted everyone from the U.S. Dept. of Energy to his local alien experts to find out how you would do everything from Swim the English Channel to Borrow the Mona Lisa to Start an Independant Nation.
Aside from being funny and quite interesting, the book is very well written; I highly recommend it.
Good book.......2004-03-18
Great fun to read, though some of it is a bit obvious... By the way I am starting an independant nation, got this book because I figured I might as well. I was already planning on starting it before I got the book. Getting an island from Nicaragua to make it. Anyways good book. Get it.
Customer Reviews:
very impressive.......2001-11-08
I've had this book for a while now and from reading through both books, it far exceeds Hunter: The Reckoning. Just based on that, and the fact that I know Demon Hunter X is a very excllent sourcebook, I'd highly recommend it over Hunter: The Reckoning...this is just what my opinion and current course of action though. Do with it what you will...
World of Darkness going Anime?.......1999-04-22
Let me Just say WOW!!! First of all Demon Hunters are incredibly powerful. it has great describtions of the Shih and the Strike Force Zero(aka SF0). Both have intresting pasts and present about how they deal with the Shen>. And as an added bonus it has Great art work (even though a little graphic) but still "DA BOMB". Now if only they rest of the World of Darkness was Anime.....
a must.......1999-04-08
this is another must buy supplement for anyone wishing to play in the east. whether you play one of the shen or wish to play one of the hunters, demon hunter x adds a whole new dimension to gaming. when will white wolf get the hint and make KoE a division of its own.
Well written and very informative.......1999-04-01
Demon Hunter X details a lot of information for running a Kindred of the East campaign for Vampire. The Shih are well detailed as is Strike Force Zero, and one is hard pressed to choose which to play. Not everyone takes the Shen lying down, and both the Shih and SF0 are at odds on how to truly deal with these demons. A great opening story and lot of info on how the Shih and SF0 hunt down and destroy the Shen, this book is highly recommended to anyone even remotely interested in the hunters in the Middle Kingdom.
An excellent book for superior characters and NPCs........1999-03-27
I thouroughly enjoyed the book and found it well written. The Shih are the absolute characters I have seen in the World of Darkness.
Book Description
John Ozoga one of North Americas premier deer researchers shares his common-sense insights into the continents most popular, adaptive and majestic game animal. Deer hunters and deer watchers will deepen their understanding of whitetail behavior, and learn how and where to encounter deer every time they enter the woods.
Ozoga conducted 30 years of deer research with Michigans Department of Natural Resources. Since 1994 he has written the Deer Research column for Deer & Deer Hunting magazine. This book compiles 35 of Ozogas most intriguing and fascinating articles. Part 1 examines the whitetails society; Part 2, whitetail social communication; Part 3, survival of the herd; and part 4, the whitetails future.
Accompanying Ozogas in-depth text is the breath-taking work of renowned wildlife photographers to help illustrate the whitetails complex behavior.
-Increases hunting success by broadening knowledge of deer behavior.
-The culmination of 30-plus years of hands-on deer research.
-100 vivid full-color photographs of white-tailed deer.
-Close-up look at buck behavior and movements throughout the fall.
Customer Reviews:
We Need More Northern Whitetail Books.......2003-07-10
As a northern deer hunter I am delighted with this book. Most of the whitetail deer books out there (at least the managment ones) are based in the south. Ozaga's book rings home with this Michigan guy.
The book is packed with great info on northern deer behavior. The photos are good and the research is sound. I wish there were more out there like it. So far, next to Alsheimer's deer books this is my favorite. I also just found a great northern food plot and habitat book called "Grow 'Em Right" by Dougherty and Dougherty which is right on the money up here in cold country.
An Excellent Choice For Any Deer Hunter.......2001-12-17
It is not often that one encounters a book that answers long standing questions, especially those that arise from the contradictions found in the popular deer hunting press. There is nothing Gee Whiz about Mr. Ozoga, he tells it like he sees it. When he doesn't know he tells you that too. This book is based on 30 years observation and experimentation on white tails at the Cusino Wildlife Research Station and dispels many of the myths and folklore regarding deer.
Be aware, however, that this book is not easy reading, but seems to be based on the discussion and conclusion sections of his research papers. It is approachable and yields to the diligent reader. It is well worth the effort and the price.
I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Barton's review.
John Ozoga Whitetail Intrigue.......2001-06-02
I have been studying and hunting Whitetail deer for over 30 years and this book actually contains useful information. Too many times books of this sort are centered on some gimmick to kill the big one. This is not the case with Ozoga's work, you will come away with a deeper understanding of the deer's habits, social order and habitat requirements. Especially for the northern deer herd. For anyone who has an interest in Whitetails this is a must read.
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A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites: a land largely unmapped, sparsely settled by Europeans, and teeming with wildlife--from elephants to wildebeest, bongos to rhinos, and all manner of scarifying beasts in between. It was the hunter-adventurer's paradise, and by the early 20th century, a small, lionhearted clan of explorers and big-game hunters began leading safaris there for money. They became the legendary White Hunters of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, men who led manifold adventurers--including royalty, film stars, writers, and millionaires--in pursuit of the world's biggest, most dangerous, and most sought-after game.
White Hunters is a nostalgic and densely-packed history of these men and their adventures, from the turn of the century until the 1970s when politics, a growing population, civil strife, and concern about species destruction intervened. Brian Herne has written a virtual and anecdotal Who's Who of White Hunters, crammed with the details of hundreds of hunts and the dozens of men who led them.
This is no book for the faint-hearted or the politically correct. Despite Herne's insistence that his heroes were the first true conservationists, White Hunters is all about the testosterone-enhanced glory of killing big, beautiful things: "Clary fired, dropping his quarry with a side brain shot. The record-class tusks weighed 159 and 143 pounds each, a gigantic elephant...." On the other hand, a staggering number of hunters died in pursuit of their quarry--mauled, eviscerated, or impaled on the tusks of furious, vengeful beasts.
Not so long ago lions wandered the streets of Nairobi. The politics of big-game hunting aside, the White Hunters' East Africa--wild, mysterious, unspoiled--is vanishing, and Herne has painstakingly documented an era that most readers will likely never know. --Svenja Soldovieri
Book Description
East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: The sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." White Hunters is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. It re-creates the legary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories, and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, they inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.
Customer Reviews:
A Non - Hunter Review.......2006-10-07
I loved this book and I've never even hunted in my life. It is a fascinating picture of a time which is now gone forever. It's not just a list of hunters and how many animals they killed, although that is a big part of it. There is also a lot of interesting background on the society of the East African colonies at that time. Ironically, after initial excessive hunting, it was the White Hunters who did most to protect the wildlife of East Africa. After independence, rapacious governments made short work of what had been carefully nurtured wildlife populations. If you liked this book I'd also recommend "A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola" and Martin Meredith's "The Fate of Africa".
My only complaints about this book are the paucity of photographs; I would have liked to see a lot more photographs. Secondly, this is a book almost specifically about East Africa, especially Kenya and Tanzania. Finally the photo of Biran Herne on the dust jacket must be about 30 years old!!!
Loaded with action and interesting characters.......2006-09-04
White Hunters is an engaging and interesting read for anyone interested in the history of the safari trade. From cover to cover Brian Herne has assembled tales that enlighten the reader on subjects ranging from the colorful characters of a bygone era to wildlife lore and insights into the life of the African tribesmen.
With original photos and stories of such notable characters as Bror and Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatton who's lives were portrayed in the Hollywood film 'Out of Africa'. To Carr Hartley who was dubbed by the American press as "The Toughest Man in the World" and whose career influenced the production of the Hollywood movie 'Hatari' starring John Wayne and Red Buttons. This book is jam-packed with true-life action and adventure.
Along with many other resources I used White Hunters as a research tool while writing Ivory Hunter. It was this book that prompted me to use Nandi tribesmen as trackers in the story in preference to the much more well known Masai.
Although many of the stories and descriptions are a bit brief, White Hunters is an entertaining and informative read for anyone interested in Africa and particularly in African hunting.
An Interesting History of the Great White Hunters.......2005-04-15
I found this book to be a fun read. Lots of details about the African White Hunters of the past and some exciting stories of things that happended during their hunts and careers. Some parts that recounted some hunting events with clients were pretty comical! Laid out in a chronologocal manner. Some sections seemed too long. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn more about the characters and some insight on how they went about their hunting business in Africa.
It reads like a text book.......2003-04-04
This is a much too abbreviated list of the hunters and trackers of East Africa and their wonderful lives. If you are expecting the adventure packed prose of Capstick, look to Capstick not here.
I did not find the book difficult to read or understand, but it was more a historical text instead of an interesting adventure.
This book would serve as a good primer for reading other works like Roosevelt's African Game Trails so the reader would understand who the characters were in that book better.
Considering the absolute wealth of characters and high drama Mr. Herne had to work with this book comes off rather dry and shallow.
For living the most exciting of lives, Mr. Herne does not seem all that excited about any of the people in it. So regrettably 3 stars.
Despite negatives, the real deal........2003-02-25
First the negatives: basically, the list of white hunters comes at the reader in a blur of names and brief incidents, so that sometimes the reading takes on a repetitious feel. I found myself a bit overwhelmed at the onslaught of names and personalities, sometimes given no more than a few paragraphs of space. The information is arranged chronologically, beginning with the earliest white hunters like Cornwallis Harris and R.J. Cunninghame, and proceeds at a blistering pace through the 1970's, when Kenya outlawed all safari hunting. Brian Herne, the author, is a good writer, without being particularly inspired. If you are looking for the Peter Capstick (Death in the Long Grass) style of safari writing, you will not find it here. Herne is not the talented storyteller that Capstick is; yet Mr. Herne does have his own particular strengths. His style is very journalistic, in that he relays facts in blunt, swift manner. Take for Instance his concise description of White Hunter, Eric Rundgren's encounter with a charging buffalo: "During one pursuit a wounded buffalo charged, slammed hard in Rundgren, and tossed him over a riverbank. He landed in the gravel stream, but held on to his .450 double rifle. Above him on the bank was the buffalo looking down at him. Lying in the shallow river Rundgren shot the buff in the throat and it collapsed." End of incident. In a Capstick book, this mad charge by a buffalo would have taken a page or two, and by the end of it the reader himself would have felt covered in fear and sweat. Yet, despite the above, I heartily recommend this book for its many strengths: for one, Brian Herne has incredible credentials as a hunter, and one senses in his writing that they are being given the true deal. Maybe not as colorfully expressed as a Capstick, but frankly, more real. Also, there are many nuggets of breathtaking adventure that come jumping at the reader right through the factual prose of Mr. Herne. Nearly every hunter of any note is here, and the reader is given potraits of all the greats: Alan Black, Karamoja Bell, Bror Blizen, Charles Cottar, Bill Judd, and many, many others. Herne certainly can't be faulted for his completeness of the topic. What becomes clear when reading Mr. Herne's book is two facts. First, that big game hunting is an incredibly dangerous profession. It seems that nearly all the hunters were at some point gored or horribly mauled by big game, or suffered malaria, black-water fever, or one of the many diseases that float in the air in Africa. A fair number where killed outright, and these stories make the most gripping in the book, Two, conservation of big game was also an important role of these big game hunters. It was not the white hunters that decimated the rhino and elephant, but rather the various corrupt African governments themselves that allowed, and benefited greatly, from poaching. Herne makes a case for this in statistics that are irrefutable. By eliminating the safari hunters, the only group of individuals that had both the means and incentive to protect the region's wildlife for both personal and financial reasons, the corrupt government officials and poachers were free to roam, now hunting with AK-47 assault rifles and poisons. International prices for rhino horn and Ivory jumped up, as did the death toll for elephant and rhino. In short, this book is a great resource for the true story of white hunters. It includes a fabulous bibliography as well, for further reading.
Book Description
The rarest of all the Hunter rifles, this account of John Hunter's experiences in pre-WW II Africa is packed with the adventures of one of the most famous professional white hunters in the history of East Africa.
Customer Reviews:
A vision of Africa that has disappeared.......2001-01-21
J.A. Hunter was one of the top professional hunters of his time (See White Hunters by Brian Herne), and he has written several books. This one was his first, and it is obvious that he improved his writing style over the course of writing. A frustrating aspect to this book is his sudden divergence of topics. Further, as another reviewer has said, there are not many dates for events, and he does not always set the scene as well as he does in future books. In addition, his subsequent books display a dry, ironic humor that this book lacks. Nonetheless, it is obvious he knows his topics very well. The stories are fascinating - especially his reasons to not use an elephant carcass for lion bait. His advice for guns (especially calibres) and their maintenance, while not endorsed by everyone, is fascinating as he demonstrates his reasoning and experience on the subject. All in all, I would certainly recommend the book for someone looking to read about an Africa when the game was plentiful and laws were not. But for someone without as much exposure to either Mr. Hunter or this genre, I would suggest some of his other books, notably 'Hunter', to begin.
Please Read.......2000-12-28
This book is written not only by a great hunter,but also a man who loved the game he pursued.John Hunter is aman that did not always like killing the animals he pursued ,but being a gameranger at times there was no choice.I have purchased alot of books on hunting in africa by people like Bell,Capstick,Ruark and many more,but Hunter is one of the best writers yet, so if a good afari book is what you want please read this one.
Good reading about hunting in Africa.......2000-04-03
This book is a quite enjoyable read about Mr. Hunter's hunting exploits in Africa. He takes great care in describing the enjoyment to be had and the danger of Africa's fauna. The style is somewhat chatty, but it fits the subject matter and his particular presentation. Unfortunately, there are no dates in the text, but my guess is that it describes a period from the 1920's to 1950's. Overall, it is fun reading and I look forward to reading his other books.
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Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South
Anya Jabour
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned, and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.
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Hunter Jumper Bible.......2007-06-24
This is one of the most complete and concise books written for the hunter/jumper rider. This book is excellent for the intermediate to advanced rider, but a bit complicated for the beginner rider.
Ms. White-Mullin has an impressive resume when it comes to riding and was once under the tutelage of the legendary George Morris. This training shows in her very correct approach to the sport. She gives very detailed explanations of the 18 tests that can be called in the Hunter ring; what the judge is specifically looking for, and she has detailed photos and describes common faults and means to correct them; maximizing on yor horses conformation and movement. My favorite portion of the book centers around the physics of jumping. I loved her clear and detailed explanation of it; when I first read this 7 years ago I had a riding epiphany... it gave me the theory to help put it all together.
So, for the rider who wants to take thier riding to the next level, this is a must have!
Learn to Win.......2001-09-29
I am an upper level reining competitor who took a class in Hunter/Jumpers to broaden my knowledge and skills in the Jumper world. This book was used as a text for the class. The book begins with a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of horsemanship and leads into advanced concepts, including tips for AHSA tests and a glossary of terms. White-Mullin also addresses a rider's nervousness during competition. Excellent photography and drawings help explain to the brain what the eye is reading! I was very impressed with the level of correctness. I appreciate the confidence and understanding it has given me this discipline and aspect of riding. Excellent for any level of rider desiring to learn. I can't believe there has been no reviews published on this book. It sits on the "most used reference" shelf in mine!
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