Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385249937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Wolf-Hunting and Wild Sport in Lower Brittany
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385249937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Wolf-hunting and Wild Sport in Lower Brittany
Author: Edward William Lewis DaviesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385397170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Wolves on the Hunt
Author: L. David MechPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625514X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The wolf is an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf - or especially a pack of wolves - can kill individuals of just about any species. Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and - in the e-book edition and online - video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters.
Wolf-hunting and wild sport in Lower Brittany, by the author of 'Paul Pendril'.
Author: Edward William L. DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Wolves on the Hunt
Author: L. David MechPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625528X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature—displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting—or more infamous, more misjudged—than the wolf. Because of wolves’ habitat, speed, and general success at evading humans, researchers have faced great obstacles in studying their natural hunting behaviors. The first book to focus explicitly on wolf hunting of wild prey, Wolves on the Hunt seeks to fill these gaps in our knowledge and understanding. Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and—in the e-book edition and online—video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters. The wolf is indeed an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf—or especially a pack of wolves—can kill individuals of just about any species. But even as wolves help drive the underlying rhythms of the ecosystems they inhabit, their evolutionary prowess comes at a cost: wolves spend one-third of their time hunting—the most time consuming of all wolf activities—and success at the hunt only comes through traveling long distances, persisting in the face of regular failure, detecting and taking advantage of deficiencies in the physical condition of individual prey, and through ceaseless trial and error, all while risking injury or death. By describing and analyzing the behaviors wolves use to hunt and kill various wild prey—including deer, moose, caribou, elk, Dall sheep, mountain goats, bison, musk oxen, arctic hares, beavers, and others—Wolves on the Hunt provides a revelatory portrait of one of nature’s greatest hunters.
Perspectives on Travel Writing
Author: Glenn HooperPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351911651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender, 'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1540
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368144863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Hunting and Fishing for Sport
Author: Richard L. HummelPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726461
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Sociologist Hummel chides the social sciences for shying away from a study of sport hunting and fishing, describes the views of hunters and fishers and animal rights activists, compares how fishing for different species has been changed differently by technological innovations, recounts his own experiences at seven commercial gamefields, and analyzes the portrayal of hunting and fishing in popular films and boys' adventure books. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR