Author: Edward I. Steinhart
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Edward I. Steinhart
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Edward I. Steinhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: STEINHART
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719030734
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: E. P. Thompson
Publisher: Breviary Stuff Publications
ISBN: 9780992946661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of the time. The subject is the Black Act, a law of unprecedented savagery passed by Parliament in 1723 to deal with 'wicked and evil-disposed men going armed in disguise'. These men were pillaging the royal forest of deer, conducting a running battle against the forest officers with blackmail, threats and violence. These 'Blacks', however, were men of some substance; their protest (for such it was) took issue with the equally wholsesale plunder of the forest by Whig nominees to the forest offices. And Robert Walpole, still consolidating his power, took an active part in the prosecution of the 'Blacks'. The episode is laden with political and social implications, affording us glimpses of considerable popular discontent, political chicanery, judicial inequity, corrupt ambition and crime.

Author: Nicolas W. Proctor
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813920876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Regardless of color or class, men in the Old South hunted; the meat, hides, and furs they brought home reinforced the hunters' claims to patriarchal authority as providers for their households. During the antebellum era, many white men also began using the hunt as a venue for the display of increasingly complex ideas about gender, race, class, and community. Proctor (history, Simpson College) explores the social drama of the hunt as it was conducted between 1800 and 1860, through accounts in books, letters, journals, and periodicals. He looks at the historical developments that shaped hunting as well as interactions between men and women and between owners and slaves. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Brian Herne
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 146686754X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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Brian Herne's White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. 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 re-creates the legendary 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.

Author: José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
ISBN: 9781932098532
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This is the classic treatise on hunting, written by Spain's leading philosopher of the 20th century. Reprinted with permission from Scribner, this edition features handsome new illustrations. The author explains the reason why humans hunt, as well as the ethics of hunting.

Author: Ninie Hammon
Publisher: Sterling & Stone LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Some secrets won't stay buried with the corpses … not even under a mountain. Ever since a rescue team dragged an unconscious Will Gribbins from the rubble of the explosion that killed twenty-seven miners in the Harlan #7 Coal Mine, shame, guilt, and fear have gnawed at Will's soul. What happened down in the dark of the mine after the explosion has dogged him for decades and reduced him to a homeless, under-the-bridge drunk. But now Will has finally stopped running. Clinging desperately to the precepts of a twelve-step program, he comes home to the mountains to seek impossible forgiveness, and to confess what he did—only to discover that the truth about what really happened that day in a mile-deep hole under Black Mountain lies in the magical coal statues carved by a handicapped boy. But his return has lit a fuse that could explode into murder. With painstaking research, Ninie Hammon has created a dark, dangerous world, accurate to the smallest detail. If you love gut-wrenching suspense coupled with a dusting of “the unexplainable,” step into the forever night of Black Sunshine’s coal mines. But don’t go too deep or stay too long. Or you might meet the mother of all terrors—being buried alive, gasping for breath until there’s no air left.

Author: Karen Harper
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373837666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Taking place in the Amish community, a trio of romantic suspense stories follow three women who come to realize the importance of community and love in the face of violence and danger.