Hunting The Last Wild Man
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Hunting The Last Wild Man
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Author : Angela Vallvey
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Hunting The Last Wild Man written by Angela Vallvey and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Fiction categories.
Falling somewhere between Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Hunting the Last Wild Man tells the story of Candela and her extended family of nine women. Our protagonist has had her disappointments in love and floats from one job to another, ending up at the local mortuary as an apprentice embalmer. There she can tuck herself away from the everyday hubbub of life’s demands. Late one night Candela finds she must work on the father of a gypsy clan, who has left instructions that he must be buried with his cane. Her days are changed forever when she discovers that the cane holds more than just the old man’s wishes. With rich images suggestive of an Almódovar film, with emotional depth and intelligence, Vallvey explores the modern woman’s cynicism, as Candela attempts to integrate an impossibly marvelous stranger into her life.
The Last Wild Men Of Borneo
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Author : Carl Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-03-06
The Last Wild Men Of Borneo written by Carl Hoffman and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Travel categories.
A 2019 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINEE (BEST FACT CRIME) • A BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS FINALIST Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary “Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization—or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world’s last Eden, where the lines between sinner and saint blur into one. In 1984, Swiss traveler Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo, the planet’s third largest island. There he slipped into the forest interior to make contact with the Penan, an indigenous tribe of peace-loving nomads living among the Dayak people, the fabled “Headhunters of Borneo.” Bruno lived for years with the Penan, gaining acceptance as a member of the tribe. However, when commercial logging began devouring the Penan’s homeland, Bruno led the tribe against these outside forces, earning him status as an enemy of the state, but also worldwide fame as an environmental hero. He escaped captivity under gunfire twice, but the strain took a psychological toll. Then, in 2000, Bruno disappeared without a trace. Had he become a madman, a hermit, or a martyr? American Michael Palmieri is, in many ways, Bruno’s opposite. Evading the Vietnam War, the Californian wandered the world, finally settling in Bali in the 1970s. From there, he staged expeditions into the Bornean jungle to acquire astonishing art and artifacts from the Dayaks. He would become one of the world’s most successful tribal-art field collectors, supplying sacred works to prestigious museums and wealthy private collectors. And yet suspicion shadowed this self-styled buccaneer who made his living extracting the treasure of the Dayak: Was he preserving or exploiting native culture? As Carl Hoffman unravels the deepening riddle of Bruno’s disappearance and seeks answers to the questions surrounding both men, it becomes clear saint and sinner are not so easily defined and Michael and Bruno are, in a sense, two parts of one whole: each spent his life in pursuit of the sacred fire of indigenous people. The Last Wild Men of Borneo is the product of Hoffman’s extensive travels to the region, guided by Penan through jungle paths traveled by Bruno and by Palmieri himself up rivers to remote villages. Hoffman also draws on exclusive interviews with Manser’s family and colleagues, and rare access to his letters and journals. Here is a peerless adventure propelled by the entwined lives of two singular, enigmatic men whose stories reveal both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the wildest place on earth.
Wild Man Against Nature Moby Dick And The Bear
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Author : Charles Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Wild Man Against Nature Moby Dick And The Bear written by Charles Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with categories.
Two of the greatest hunting stories in American Literature, Herman Melville's Moby Dick and William Faulkner's "The Bear," written not quite a hundred years apart, reflect two different stages in man's struggle against nature in the New World. In Melville's novel nature, incarnate in the shape of a great albino whale, is invincible and believed to be immortal just as wild nature was believed to be inexhaustible in America at the middle of the nineteenth century. In Faulkner's story Old Ben, the legendary Mississippi black bear, also symbolizes nature, but, unlike Melville's white whale, the bear is mortal. What had seemed inconceivable to many at the middle of the nineteenth century had become all too clear by the middle of the twentieth: Man with his increased numbers, insatiable appetites and technological power had gained the ability to destroy wild nature. These stories by two great American writers are fiction, but they confront the reader with a tragic reality: From the moment Columbus' three small ships sighted the island of San Salvador in the Caribbean wild nature in America was doomed. The mad captain Ahab's battle with Moby Dick was only an episode in the epic struggle that followed; the death of Old Ben with the knife of a wild man in his heart was the finale. In this his latest book, "Wild: Man Against Nature-Moby Dick and 'The Bear,'" Hughes returns to the subject of his 1971 doctoral dissertation which he has revised and updated, expanding further upon the critical issue of the 21st century--the impact of humanity on the earth, on nature and its wilderness areas and on our fellow creatures. He explores this theme by drawing a detailed comparison and contrast between two of the greatest hunting stories in American Literature, Herman Melville's Moby Dick and William Faulkner's "The Bear," and showing how these masterworks foreshadowed the global environmental crises we are facing today. www.dochughesbooks.com
Wild Men
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Author : Douglas Cazaux Sackman
language : en
Publisher: New Narratives in American His
Release Date : 2010
Wild Men written by Douglas Cazaux Sackman and has been published by New Narratives in American His this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Documents the friendship between an early 20th-century founder of American anthropology and a last surviving Native American, describing Ishi's adaptation to modern city life while retaining his inherent culture and Kroeber's subsequent questioning of his profession and civilization.
Wild Men Wild Alaska
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Author : Rocky McElveen
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date : 2007-09-16
Wild Men Wild Alaska written by Rocky McElveen and has been published by Thomas Nelson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers directly into the Alaskan bush, and shares the intense challenges of a majestic wilderness that pushes a man to his limits.
Wild Men Wild Beasts
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Author : William Gordon Gordon-Cumming
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas
Release Date : 1871
Wild Men Wild Beasts written by William Gordon Gordon-Cumming and has been published by Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Big game hunting categories.
The Wild Man At Home Or Pictures Of Life In Savage Lands
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Author : James Greenwood (journalist.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Wild Man At Home Or Pictures Of Life In Savage Lands written by James Greenwood (journalist.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
Last Of Our Kind
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Author : Pete Breidahl
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-02-24
Last Of Our Kind written by Pete Breidahl and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-24 with categories.
"The Last Of Our Kind" is perfect for a back country hut, hunting lodge, or winters night by the fire as the rain hammers down outside. It's longer than most hunting books of its kind, it's perfect as a companion for a weekend hunt or to keep you amused as you sit in a tree stand or hide for a 6 hour stint. The Last Of Our Kind is an interesting mix of hunting and fishing yarns, as well as hard truths, and the sum of Pete's almost 30 years' experience with a rifle in his hands. Society has become has been wrapped in cotton wool, entitled, and softened. Now the need for instant gratification without hardship has changed hunters and hunting to the point where people new to the sport bully each other like mean school girls online, safe behind their keyboads. But as little as 30 years ago, things were very different and in many parts of the world they still are. Pete tells it how "he feels" it is, and he makes no effort to spare the feelings of the new generation of hunters born and breed in comfort, and educated on the internet. Pete has withdrawn further from his peers in the west, and will remain quietly hidden in the last of the worlds rapidly vanishing wild frontiers, with his horse, dog, and rifle, hunting alongside the last of his kind. If you've never missed a deer, you've done bugger all hunting. I've lived a strange sort of life, and the one thing that's has provided me with grounding, and sense of peace, is my time spent in wild places with the dwindling population of the world's frontiers. I'm currently in Turkey as I type this introduction; and if I look to my left, outside there are young boys no more than 10 years old galloping around on terribly intimidating Arabian horses firing off arrows at targets. This world, and the places I have felt most at home in are disappearing at an alarming rate, and the world I grew up in is all but gone at home in Australia and New Zealand. There are many reasons for this, but the biggest are comfort and technology, along with the appeal of big city living over rural hardship and isolation.Nothing is hard anymore; and new hunters have no idea what a wet Swannie in a pack even weighs, with hunting gear now being both warm and lightweight. Dehydrated meals are ready to eat in seconds with hot water from the Jetboil, tents actually keep you dry, and a deer on a slip 600 meters away is easily glassed, ranged, dialed up, and dropped with the help of a smart phone, range finder and a 6.5 Creedmoor topped with a Nightforce scope. The days of billy tea, damper, and carrying the sporterised .303 that grandad killed 16 Japs with back in Papua are no more.Me; my time fell between these two worlds, and as the old faded away, I was both a pioneer of the new, and educated by those that did it hard in the good old days. I don't shun modern technology at all and have chosen to both embrace it and evolve the way I hunt, as well as hold onto the true spirit of the hunt... and that is overcoming hardships in wild places, hunting wild creatures, with wild men. These are both stories I retell around the campfire with friends, and many I have written for magazines over the years. The hunts that have inspired and changed me both as a man and as a hunter, the good yarns, the lessons I learnt, and the lessons I wish I'd been taught rather than learn through failures. I'm going to offend a few people, but I call it how I see it, not as the politically correct would like me too. It also contains the sum total of Pete's knowledge on marksmanship, as well as an introduction into long range shooting and getting the most out of your rifle. It contains the information he wished he had been given 30 years earlier, and is valuable for a shooter of any experience level.
A Thousand Deer
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Author : Rick Bass
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-09-15
A Thousand Deer written by Rick Bass and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—"the Deer Pasture"—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness and wilderness, about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and particularly about how important it is for children to live in the natural world. The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass's boyhood in the suburbs of Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in the little oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to his commitment to providing his children in Montana the same opportunity—a life afield—that his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably this brings him back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own passage from young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his commitment to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to the last wild places.
Latina Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Latina Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fashion categories.