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.
Generation of Swine
Title | Generation of Swine PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | |
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.
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.
Great White Sharks
Title | Great White Sharks PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Riehecky |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | White shark |
ISBN | 1429623152 |
Introduces great white sharks and describes their physical characteristics, their hunting techniques, and why they are important.
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.
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
Fear and Loathing in America
Title | Fear and Loathing in America PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 1116 |
Release | 2011-09-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439126364 |
From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction." Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years—addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut—is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.