The Hunting Imperative
Title | The Hunting Imperative PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Born with a full compliment of 'hunters genes' in rural Africa, I make no apologies for allowing the predatory instinct to influence my life from an early age.
Hunting the Demon
Title | Hunting the Demon PDF eBook |
Author | Jaci Burton |
Publisher | Dell |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780440243366 |
Problems arise when demon hunter Shay Peterson discovers that her next quarry is Nic Diavolo, a gorgeous surfer trapped between two warring realms, who must use his seductive wiles to join forces with an unwilling Shay to save himself from an evil enemy out to steal his very soul. Original.
The empire of nature
Title | The empire of nature PDF eBook |
Author | John M. MacKenzie |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2017-03-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1526119587 |
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
The Most Dangerous Game
Title | The Most Dangerous Game PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Connell |
Publisher | Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2023-02-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8728187490 |
Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".
Polar Imperative
Title | Polar Imperative PDF eBook |
Author | Shelagh D. Grant |
Publisher | D & M Publishers |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2011-03-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1553656180 |
Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent’s polar regions. This engaging, timely history examines: the unfolding implications of major climate changes the impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoples the current high-stakes game for control over the adjacent waters of Alaska, Arctic Canada and Greenland the events, issues and strategies that have influenced claims to authority over the lands and waters of the North American Arctic, from the arrival of the first inhabitants around 3,000 BCE to the present sovereignty from a comparative point of view within North America and parallel situations in the European and Asian Arctic This book will become a standard reference on Arctic history and will redefine North Americans’ understanding of the sovereign rights and responsibilities of Canada’s northernmost region.
The Social Contract
Title | The Social Contract PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Ardrey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Animal behavior |
ISBN |
The Bullet Garden
Title | The Bullet Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Hunter |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2024-06-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1668061236 |
"July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature--German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It's clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation. Enter Pacific hero Earl Swagger, assigned this crucial and bloody mission. With crosshairs on his back, Swagger can't trust anyone as he infiltrates the shadowy corners of London and France for answers" --