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Book White Hunters

Download or read book White Hunters written by Brian Herne and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Herne's White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger, and romance. East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: the sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert, and mountain is, as Isak Dinesen wrote, of "unequalled nobility." White Hunters re-creates the legendary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories, and brings to life such romantic figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles for the love of a woman, and Dinesen's dashing lover, Denys Finch. Witnesses to the richest wildlife spectacle on the earth, these hunters were the first conservationists. Hard-drinking, infatuated with risk, and careless in love, they inspired Hemingway's stories and movies with Clark Gable and Gregory Peck.

Book White Hunter  Black Heart

Download or read book White Hunter Black Heart written by Peter Viertel and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Driven by his unfulfilled passions .. ... John Wilson could find no peace, in spite of his wealth, hist talent, his fame as a Holywood director. His safari in Africa was another move in his restless search for new sensations. Here at last he found a passion so primitive and elemental he could not control it. Hi veneer of civilization was stripped away and he came fac to face with the dark secret in his evil, twisted soul.

Book The Last White Hunter

Download or read book The Last White Hunter written by Donald Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bathed in Blood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicolas W. Proctor
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780813920917
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Bathed in Blood written by Nicolas W. Proctor and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regardless of color or class, men in the Old South hunted; the meat, hides, and furs they brought home reinforced the hunters' claims to patriarchal authority as providers for their households. During the antebellum era, many white men also began using the hunt as a venue for the display of increasingly complex ideas about gender, race, class, and community. Proctor (history, Simpson College) explores the social drama of the hunt as it was conducted between 1800 and 1860, through accounts in books, letters, journals, and periodicals. He looks at the historical developments that shaped hunting as well as interactions between men and women and between owners and slaves. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book White Savage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Drinnon
  • Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book White Savage written by Richard Drinnon and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dust jacket: "Who was John Dunn Hunter? Was he a white man who had been kidnapped as a child and raised to manhood by the Osage Indians; who wrote a widely acclaimed account of his captivity that made him the wonder of two continents; whose self appointed mission was to save the American Indian from genocide beyond the Mississippi; and who, finally, was murdered by an Indian as he bravely rallied the scattered forces of his 'Red and White Republic of Fredonia?' Or was John Dunn Hunter a hoax? an arrant imposter who claimed knowledge of the ways of the Indian for enigmatic motives of self aggrandizement?

Book White Hunter

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Alexander Hunter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1938
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book White Hunter written by John Alexander Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Not Out First Ball

Download or read book Not Out First Ball written by Roger Morgan-Grenville and published by Bene Factum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful and witty book that is also a love letter to cricket through the story of an accidental club that has lasted 25 years and 263 matchesNot everyone can be a true sports hero. Most of us lost out in life's sports lottery, and we have to find whatever virtue we can in effort and incompetence. Not Out First Ball is a laugh-out-loud manifesto for anyone who has ever silently sobbed at the sight of their off stump cartwheeling off into the distance, or thrown their bat in disgust onto an autumn bonfire. "To field idly at long off in the evening sunshine is to peep back over the wall to when things moved slower, cost less and didn't always need to signify something. At a time of digital abundance, the whole glorious point of cricket is that so much of it is utterly pointless." Roger Morgan-Grenville and Richard Perkins have written a book that is not only funny but also immensely insightful and profound. All cricketers (and maybe even their wives) will identify with the authors' experiences and those of their teammates. Long listed for the MCC Book of the Year 2012.

Book Dinosaur Hunter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve White
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-10-20
  • ISBN : 1472812840
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Dinosaur Hunter written by Steve White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations - your application for a Mesozoic hunting licence has been successful! Before you travel back in time and charge headlong into a pack of prehistoric big game, we strongly advise that you read the following guidebook. It will provide you with information crucial to success – and survival! You will learn the basic facts of the geography, climate and environmental conditions of the three periods that make up the exciting Mesozoic era. The book then covers the huge variety of dinosaurs that stalk these times, giving tips on identification, tracking, and the best weapons to bring them down! Let the hunt begin!

Book Hunter s Moon

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  • Author : Randy Wayne White
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2007-03-27
  • ISBN : 1101207043
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Hunter s Moon written by Randy Wayne White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doc Ford saves a former President of the United States from assassination-and regrets it. Months ago, Kal Wilson's wife was killed in a plane crash. President Wilson is sure it was no accident-and he wants revenge. He needs Doc Ford to spring him loose from the watchful eye of the Secret Service, keep him alive, then get him home. Ford has just been picked for presidential duty- whether he likes it or not.

Book Black Poachers  White Hunters

Download or read book Black Poachers White Hunters written by Edward I. Steinhart and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977 the Kenyan government banned all hunting, whether by sportsmen or Kenyan Africans, in response to the poaching crisis that was then spreading across the African continent. This brought an end to the era of the 'Great White Hunters' in this 'sportsman's paradise'. This book traces the history of hunting during Kenya's colonial era from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Three main themes emerge: first, is the importance of hunting to Kenyan farmers and herders; second is the attempt during European colonization of Kenya to recreate in Africa the practices and values of nineteenth-century European aristocratic hunts, which reinforced an image of African inferiority and subordination; third, is the role of the conservationists, who claimed sovereignty over nature and wildlife, completing the transformation of African hunters into criminal poachers. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Book White Trash

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  • Author : Nancy Isenberg
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 110160848X
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book White Trash written by Nancy Isenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

Book White Hunter Grey Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucas Scott Mark
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2023-02-06
  • ISBN : 1669864049
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book White Hunter Grey Heart written by Lucas Scott Mark and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future the only white privilege that exists is the privilege to die.

Book Race for Education

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  • Author : Mark Hunter
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-24
  • ISBN : 1108480527
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Race for Education written by Mark Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of families and schools in South Africa, revealing how the marketisation of schooling works to uphold the privilege of whiteness.

Book Judging Hunters and Hunter Seat Equitation

Download or read book Judging Hunters and Hunter Seat Equitation written by Anna Jane White-Mullin and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the only book on how to judge hunt-seat show classes! Experienced instructor and United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) registered judge Anna Jane White-Mullin provides the definitive resource for aspiring judges and competitors alike. Judging Hunters includes: 100 photographs of correct and incorrect positions of horses and riders; explanations of how to develop an eye for conformation classes, score hunters, and equitation riders on the flat and over fences; and a complete discussion of 2006 USEF rules and tests. This new, revised edition continues to be a valuable asset to those preparing for a career as a trainer or judge, or just moving up through the ranks of hunter/jumper competition. Anna Jane White-Mullin serves as a judge, clinician, and lecturer throughout North and South America.

Book White Hunters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Herne
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2001-06
  • ISBN : 0805067361
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book White Hunters written by Brian Herne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of the great African safaris evokes the harmony that once existed between hunters and the elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, and rhino that roamed East Africa in large numbers before poaching and politics intervened. The author argues that there is an intricate connection between hunting and conservation, and evidence that elephant and rhino populations are beginning to rebound after years of devastation.

Book American Stock Car Racers

Download or read book American Stock Car Racers written by Don Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holy War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Dedopulos
  • Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
  • Release : 2001-09
  • ISBN : 9781588467027
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Holy War written by Tim Dedopulos and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, supernatural powers have reigned, warring among themselves, culling the human herds and lashing out from the shadows. The creatures of the night have held court since before the dawn of history. Nothing lasts forever. From the throng of humanity, individuals emerge who know the truth. They know monsters exist. Enough is enough! The forces of darkness must pay their due. The time of retribution is at hand. Travel to the Fertile Crescent -- the Middle East and Egypt -- to discover what beasts lurk even under the desert sun.