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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158975603321

Autore

Jacobson Jake

Titolo

Alaska Hunting : Earthworms to Elephants

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : Publication Consultants, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-59433-405-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages)

Disciplina

816.6

Soggetti

Short stories, American

Hunting stories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Writing this collection of short stories -- Earthworms in Alaska -- Kids' Hunting and Fishing -- My Grandparents, Then Being Grampa -- Ancient Artifacts -- Wooly Mammoth Tusks -- 2012, The Fall season -- Most Remote -- The Wife's Revenge -- Why I Like the Winchester Model 70 -- Never Cry Raa -- Emerson's Caribou -- Infected Caribou -- Commercial Caribou Hunting in NW Alaska -- An Early 1970s Sheep Hunt. -- Single Horner in Skolai Pass -- The Heart of a Ram -- My Best Ram -- Fossil Rocks, or sheep Huntin' side Tracks -- Kodiak Island Provides Unique Opportunity for Trophy Deer -- Joey's Buck -- Bouy, that's a nice buck! -- Boddington's Best Buck -- Getting White Fish for Winter Dog Food -- Snowshoe Hares -- Arctic Hares -- Epiphany on Kodiak -- Meeting Fred Machetanz -- 337 Pound Halibut -- Alan's Big Kings -- Skatin' for Halibut -- Kobuk Jade -- Frau Eder and Me -- Best Moose, Ever -- Over Turned Canoe and Booze -- Howling up Wolves -- Kris' Wolves -- Polar Bear Hunting -- WALRUS... or Waterus? -- Getting Right with the Lord.

Sommario/riassunto

Alaska Hunting: Earthworms to Elephants, a collection of 39 stories, is intended to be seasoning for a Hunters' pie, rural Alaska style.Most hunters extol the charismatic mega fauna, but pursuit of lesser game often takes center stage. Occasionally hunting discoveries lead to other endeavors, from jade mining to gold prospecting and fossil recovery.



Possibilities are limitless. As we engage in hunting and fishing pursuits memories are laced with the big ones--the exceptional, genetically endowed giants--but some of the brightest memories are of average representatives of their species. What made them so memorable was the combination of circumstances under which they were taken--or lost. Companions, whether human or animal, often make the hunt memorable and its recollections of trophy quality.