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If the charming smile of a young Hemingway crouched over a lion isn't enough to drag you on the covers of The Supreme Hunting Tales Ever Shared with, the remarkable prose you'll find all through its pages will. Its objective is serious writing, also it bags some commanding literary prey. Lamar Underwood, long an editor at Sports Afield plus Outdoors, has assembled a stellar compilation with the pens of Hemingway (naturally), Faulkner, Turgenev, Thomas McGuane, Vance Bourjaily, Patrick O'Brian, Robert Ruark, and Teddy Roosevelt, all of whose prose hunts for giant answers in addition to big game.
While obviously addressed on the fraternity of hunters, the essays and stories in this compilation transcend the boundaries of the field. McGuane, writing passionately regarding how the seek for food defines who we are in "The Heart of this Game," observes, as Sitting Bull did before him, "when the buffalo are gone, we'll hunt mice, for we are hunters and we wish our freedom." Hemingway, in "Remembering Shooting-Flying," an Esquire article as of 1935, keeps world affairs in perspective when he wonders "how the snipe fly in Russia now and maybe shooting pheasants is counter-revolutionary." "The Forest and the Steppe" is probably Turgenev's evocative "Hunter's Sketches"; evocative also defines "Mister Howard Was a Actual Gent," one of Ruark's marvelous "Old Man and also the Boy" assistance to Field & Stream.
Given the general subject, there is certainly plenty of sporting drama all through, but also a lot of thoughtful reflection, plus absolutely magnificent storytelling, which is as it should be. If you set your sights on the best, your aim needs to be true. --Jeff Silverman --This text refers for an out of print or unavailable version of this title.
Review
"Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with an excellent concept for a number of books that deserve greater than superficial acknowledgment. This type of series is "The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told", anthologies that ought to win places on many bedside tables. For the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading."--The Lexington County Chronicle
"It's much book wrapped in adventure by nostalgia, a book by writing that mutually soothes and crackles. Besides as a solid volume on its own, it is a fine preface to a variety of writers readers might pursue at length" -- St. Mary's Press
"Few would quarrel with the choice of any of the 29 writers included as among one of the best within the game. ...The stories tell about the planning, the quests, the challenges, plus the experiences that create hunting what it is. Hunters will uncover many passages that carry back recollections of these treasured moments in camp by good friends. Other stories may take readers to position and era they will visit only of their dreams" -- The Conservationist