A History of Hunting in the Great Smoky Mountains
Man versus beast. It is an age-old struggle, and one that has ensued within the rugged terrain of the Great Smoky Mountains since humans first encountered the region centuries ago. Author and local hunting connoisseur Bob Plott takes readers on a quest back through time for a glimpse into the minds and the rifles of the region s most intrepid hunters. From the primitive weaponry and prevailing tactics of the Cherokee to the audacious rifle-toting ridge runners, and even a gruesome gang of cannibalistic rogues, these stories are truly a gripping tribute to mountain life and the adventure of the game.
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The Other Side: A Teen?s Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal
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Job Hunting on the Internet, 4TH ED (Job Hunting on the Internet (Online))
This compact resource has established itself as the guide for anyone who’s taking their job hunt to the Internet. A companion volume to Richard Bolles’s best-selling WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?, this book shows you how to integrate the Internet into a comprehensive job-hunting strategy. It helps you reap the best of what the Internet has to offer while navigating the morass of information available online. With more than 30 years of job-hunting expertise, Mr.Bolles brings an unparalleled depth of knowledge to this field and offers invaluable insight and wisdom to job-hunters at all levels. Fully revised with updated links, site-content profiles, and recommendations, JOB-HUNTING ON THE INTERNET is packed with information and advice that no savvy job-hunter can afford to do without.
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Southern Hunting in Black and White
For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. Whether pursuers of fox or raccoon, deer or rabbits, quail or dove, Southern hunters reveal for Stuart Marks complex patterns of male bonding, social status, and relationships with nature. Marks, who has written two outstanding books on hunting in Africa, was born and has long lived in the South. Examining Southern hunting from frontier times through the antebellum era to the present day, he shows it to be a litmus test of rural identity. “Drawing on the latest anthropological theory, statistical sources, extensive interviews, and historical research, [Marks] has crafted a multifaceted account of Southern hunting. Relations of race, property, gender, and region appear in fresh guises in this innovative and intriguing study. The portrayal of the contemporary state of hunting is especially interesting, revealing both the continuities with the past and the new pressures on the sport.”–Virginia Quarterly Review
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The Ultimate Guide to Blackpowder Hunting
Although a muzzleloader is one of the simplest and most functional firearms ever devised, a myriad of questions challenge modern muzzleloader hunters and shooters, who have more types of firearms, powders, loads, and other products to choose from than our ancestors ever thought possible. In The Ultimate Guide to Blackpowder Hunting, Al Raychard answers these questions and many more, covering such topics as the anatomy of a muzzleloader, muzzleloader types and designs, ignition systems, propellants, projectiles and barrels, and loading up and sighting in for hunting. Raychard also gets into explaining field-tested tactics for hunting a variety of big-game species. (6 x 9 1/4, 308 pages, bw photos, diagrams)
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Deer Hunting
Features updated information on preseason scouting, and hunting from stands
Third edition uses up-to-the-minute studies to add much-needed information about Chronic Wasting Disease
Drawing on knowledge gleaned from a lifetime of hunting all across America and into Canada, using firearms, bow and arrow, and cameras, Richard P. Smith builds on the foundations of previous editions to give his most complete guide yet. Deer Hunting goes beyond basic hunting manuals into less traditional stalking techniques, the importance of ethical hunting practices, and the deep connection with the outdoors that draws hunters even when the odds of scoring are not great.
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The Deer Hunter’s Book: Classic Hunting Stories
Deer hunting is as complicated and beautiful a sport as has ever been invented, and all that is reflected in the classic essays collected in THE DEER HUNTER’S BOOK. The writers here know deer and deer hunting, but they also have the knack of sharing what they have seen and learned. From Jack O’Connor’s famous “portraits” of deer, to Ted Trueblood’s oft-quoted articles for Field Stream, these are some of the greatest writings ever on deer hunting, stories like: .
“The World of the Whitetail” by Angus Cameron .
“Portrait of the Mule Deer” by Jack O’Connor .
“The Old and the New” by Ted Trueblood .
“Hunting the Mule Deer” by Theodore Roosevelt .
“The Secret Life of the Cottontail Deer” by John Madson .
“The Right Deer Rifle East and West” by John Jobson .
“Woodcraft and Whitetails” by Larry Koller .
“Making the Drive” by Francis Sell .
“Finding Wounded Deer” by Ray Beck .
“Sign the Trophy Buck Leaves” by Larry Benoit with Peter Miller .
“The Whitetail Challenge” by Lew Dietz .
and dozens more
So sidle up to the fire, crack open THE DEER HUNTER’S BOOK, and while away the hours until the next opening day.
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Hunting Serial Predators 2 Edition
Written by a leading expert on the subject, the Second Edition of Hunting Serial Predators describes the empirical process used to analyze serial murderers’ crime scene actions, making it possible to form logical decisions about how to detect and apprehend serial killers. In this new edition, Dr. Maurice Godwin provides the reader with a model of the crime scene actions of American serial murderers based on information available to a police inquiry; an overview of the related scientific knowledge, introducing a new method to classify the serial predator; and accounts of the process and difficulties of profiling the serial murderer. By presenting a classification model of serial murderers and their crime scene behaviors based on empirical and repeatable studies, this book makes significant advances in the areas of police investigations, etiology, and treatment possible.
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Hunting the Quails of North America
For Ben Williams, author of the acclaimed American Wingshooting, there is something very special about bird hunting. This book is not only about hunting game birds, bird dogs and bird guns, although they have been an important part of Williams’ life. It’s also about each bird’s origin, distribution, life cycle, behavior, habitat, food and daily routine. It’s about what Williams calls “Learning Wild Things.” Six species of quail are covered, each discussed in terms of when Williams first hunted the bird, exploring the bird’s life cycle, and explaining how Williams hunts the birds today. These essays are about hunting wild things and wild places with clouds moving over-head and rocks beneath one’s boots. As David Gutterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars, explains, “Hunting the Quails of North America is quintessential Ben O. Williams-taut, direct, suffused with earned knowledge, and permeated by a gentle humor. It is a joyous book, brimming with its author’s love! of life afield, and while easily the most useful guide extant on the subject of wingshooting North American quails, it is also far more than a how-to-manual. Its pages serve up wisdom, vision, and finally the ineffable and heartbreaking beauty of days spent out of doors.”
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Solo Safari (Classics in African Hunting Series)
Stories of modern adventurers who hunted Africa without a professional hunter. Includes a lengthy appendix with tips for do-it-yourself safaris.