The Great Shark Hunt
Title | The Great Shark Hunt PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451669259 |
The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”—“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay, a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful ‘60s and ‘70s.
Songs of the Doomed
Title | Songs of the Doomed PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2002-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0743240995 |
A collection of essays by Hunter Thompson that chart the high and low moments of his thirty-year career as a journalist
Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo
Title | Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | Ammo Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781623260767 |
Enhanced by new biographical material, a visual biography collects the gonzo journalist's photography and archives, featuring many photographs taken by Thompson himself, accompanied by writings and memorabilia.
Neighborhood Sharks
Title | Neighborhood Sharks PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Roy |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2014-09-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 146688083X |
Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge! A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals. In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons—a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals.
Generation of Swine
Title | Generation of Swine PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439126895 |
From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner. Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best—covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN—24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson—eerily prescient, incisive, and enduring.
Sharks on the Hunt
Title | Sharks on the Hunt PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Mason |
Publisher | Hungry Tomato ® |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1541519043 |
Sharks are powerful, super-efficient eating machines. But how do they hunt? Discover the specialized features and tactics they use to capture prey, such as touch-sensitive teeth to identify food, an upper jaw that unhinges from the skull, and a vast array of specialized teeth. Meet all kinds of species, from the fearsome great white and hammerhead to the super-fast shortfin mako and the attack-launching angel shark. Brilliant photographs, clear diagrams, and spellbinding facts tell all about these mighty, deep-sea operators.
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
Title | Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 567 |
Release | 2012-10-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439165963 |
An anthology of top-selected Rolling Stone articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.