Big Game Hunting Around The World

Have you ever perched in a tree stand, watching for big game? Listened to the crackle of branches and brush being trampled as a large buck steps into the clearing? Or have you hunted elk, moose, sheep, or bears? Big game hunting takes a lot of patience, because these huge animals tend to travel alone. But the wait is worth it when you get a chance at a trophy animal. Enter the Great Outdoors Sports Zone to learn about the history, gear, rules, and best techniques connected to big game hunting. You'll discover: • Where different big game animals live. • What gear you need to become an expert big game hunter. • How hunting rules help preserve big game populations. • How to cook your game after it has been harvested. Are you into sports? Then get into your favorite zone!

It doesn’t get much more exciting than big-game hunting. This book introduces readers to large North American animals people like to hunt such as elk and bison. Animal tracking and identification are covered, and full-color images help children to visualize what they’re reading about. Hunting safety and general rules and regulations are also discussed. This high-interest topic will keep even reluctant readers turning the pages. Children will learn many tips and tricks that can be used on their first big-game hunting trip.

"Sport Hunting On Six Continents" chronicles 15 years of Wilson's adventures on behalf of Sportsmen on Film. From the snow-covered mountains of Alaska to the tropical paperbark forests of Australia, from hunting with the native American Inuits and Indians of North America to the Gauchos of South America, the Aborigines of the South Pacific, the Bushmen and Pygmies of Africa, and modern day Asians and Europeans, Wilson has been there with his video camera, rifle, and many of the world's finest professional hunters.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Game Days is a word and picture tribute to the sport of North American big game hunting. Quotes, stories and excerpts from the world's finest hunting writers and evocative, full-page color photographs imbue the reader of Game Days with an armchair perception of the thrills, dangers, hardships, humor, remorse and indefatigable spirit of the hunter in pursuit of game. -- Game Days, too, is a vivid, pictorial celebration of the big game animals -- elk, moose, deer, bear, mountain sheep and other quarry that inhabit wild places men visit in this peculiar contest. This beautiful book also tells a story of the contest, not that of man against animal, but of man against himself, his own psychological fears and physical weaknesses, his awe of rugged wilderness, his veneration of the animals he hunts ... his sometimes personally unfathomable reasons that sanction his killing. -- Game Days will take you to wind-whipped mountain ridges, to arctic ice packs, to barren ground tundra and the forests, deserts and plains of North America. But most of all, it will take you into the heart and mind of the big game hunter.... combines exquisite photography and wonderful prose ... -- Outdoor Life

Here are the most exciting big game hunting yarns ever written about Africa and Asia. Ten superb stories on hunting lions, elephants, tigers, buffalos, leopards and sheep, with chapters on big game rifles, equipment and knives. The authors are Selous, Baker, Kirby, Neumann, and Litledale—the most expert and fearless hunters ever to track big game. These anthologies make fascinating reading for the practical hunter or the armchair outdoorsman. Whelen has dug deeply into the literature of hunting and has selected what, in his expert opinion, are the best big game hunting stories of all times. They have been chosen with two points in mind: first for extreme readability and adventure; and second, for the technical hunting information in them. All the stories rank high on both sides.