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E-book: Hunting Big Game: In Africa and Asia

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  • Series: Stackpole Classics
  • Pub. Date: 28-Mar-2018
  • Publisher: Stackpole Books
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780811767286
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  • Format: EPUB+DRM
  • Series: Stackpole Classics
  • Pub. Date: 28-Mar-2018
  • Publisher: Stackpole Books
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780811767286
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Here are the most exciting big game hunting yarns ever written about Africa and Asia. Ten superb stories on hunting lions, elephants, tigers, buffaloes, leopards and sheep, with chapters on big game rifles, equipment and knives.

The authors are Selous, Baker, Kirby, Neumann, and Litledalethe most expert and fearless hunters ever to track big game. Townsend Whelenhimself a famous hunterhas been collecting these stories for years. His selections are the best, and most exciting, accounts of absolutely true adventures.

These tales open a world almost entirely unknown to sport: that of hunting man-killing big game alone, without the vast equipment and caravans used by modern, organised hunters and explorers. The authors tracked in unexplored countries, living, surviving and earning a livelihood by the rifle alone.

The comments from the writers on the technical sides of their rifles, ammunition and equipment are extremely valuable to all hunters. Townsend Whelens forewords to each chapter, and his comments on the equipment and methods of the hunters, add immeasurably to the quality of this unique collection.

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; second, for the technical hunting information in them. All the stories rank high on both sides.

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A Thrilling Anthology of True Adventurers by Master Hunters
I INTRODUCTION
vii
Townsend Whelen
II FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS
1 Introduction
1(7)
2 Early Ivory Hunting
8(14)
3 The Audacity and Perseverance of Lions
22(9)
4 A Day with Elephants
31(14)
III WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL
1 Introduction
45(6)
Samuel W. Baker
2 African Game and Rifles
51(9)
3 Rhinos and Buffaloes
60(16)
4 Adventures with Lions
76(14)
5 The African Elephant and Hippo
90(12)
6 Second Expedition to South Africa
102(29)
7 Later Visits to South Africa
131(22)
IV SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER
1 Introduction
153(2)
2 The Tiger in India
155(29)
3 Buffalo Hunting---And Weapons---in Ceylon
184(11)
4 Boar Hunting with a Knife
195(9)
5 The Rifle of a Past Half Century
204(19)
V ARTHUR H. NEUMANN
1 Introduction
223(4)
2 Early Days in British East Africa
227(12)
3 Remarks on Rifles and Ammunition
239(2)
4 Mauled by a Elephant
241(18)
5 Further Hunting Adventures
259(18)
VI ST. GEORGE LITTLEDALE
1 Introduction
277(2)
2 The Marco Polo Sheep of the Pamir
279(12)
VII FREDERICK VAUGHAN KIRBY
1 Introduction
291(1)
2 Lion Hunting
292(23)
3 An Adventure with a Hill Leopard
315(9)
4 The African Game Rifle
324
Townsend Whelen (March 6, 1877 December 23, 1961), was an American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman. Townsend undertook many expeditions into the wilderness of both North and South America, living off the land, hunting and exploring. Apart from his professional interest in the rifle as a military weapon and competitive target shooting, he also experimented with rifles and cartridges in survival and wilderness applications, using the different loads in his hunting rifles to take both small and large game while on long hunting excursions in the wilds.