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The Livre de chasse is a medieval book on hunting, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III, Count of Foix, also known as Fébus or Phoebus, and dedicated to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. [1] Fébus was one of the greatest huntsmen of his day and his treatise became the standard text on medieval hunting techniques. It was described by ...
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника, romanized: Zapiski ohotnika; also known as A Sportman's Notebook, The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) is an 1852 cycle of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition.
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Gaston III, Count of Foix, Book of the Hunt, 1387–88. Written between 1406 and 1413 by Edward, second Duke of York, The Master of Game is mostly a translation of an earlier work by Gaston Phoebus entitled Livre de chasse, [3] and is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting. [2]
Since his first bighorn sheep hunt, which happened to be unsuccessful, O'Connor got hooked on it, achieving 2 grand slams of sheep hunting before the term existed, which consists of taking the 4 species of North American Sheep, including a Dall ram hunted with a .30-06, during one of his expeditions to the Yukon Territory 1950 with 15 1/2 inch ...
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is a 1999 collection of linked short stories by Melissa Bank. The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14. The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing spent 16 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. It was a bestseller in both the United States and the United ...
One of Harding's Pleasure & Profit Books.A collection of real life outdoor stories based on the experiences of the author, Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock.Writing from memory, Mr. Woodcock tells of incidents that happened during the fifty years (1855–1905) he spent camping, hunting, trapping and fishing in the wilderness of Northern Pennsylvania and several other states.
Moving on to writing magazine articles about hunting and rifles, he became best known as a writer for and later the shooting editor of Outdoor Life magazine, he also wrote several books about hunting, shooting and game animals. Over the course of his life O'Connor shot among other animals brown bear, black bear, cougar, bighorn sheep, dall ...