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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,024,881 ratings — published 2008
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,071 ratings — published 2008
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.07 — 618,353 ratings — published 2022
Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,898 ratings — published 1977
Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)
by (shelved 34 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,306 ratings — published 1944
Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,629 ratings — published 2012
Where the Red Fern Grows (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.13 — 443,882 ratings — published 1961
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as hunting)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,485 ratings — published 1907
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 1: Big Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.63 — 1,282 ratings — published 2014
Green Hills of Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hunting)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,484 ratings — published 1935
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 2: Small Game and Fowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.63 — 728 ratings — published 2015
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,140 ratings — published 2010
A Hunter's Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.28 — 209 ratings — published 1996
Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,828 ratings — published 1946
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,789 ratings — published 1949
The Old Man and the Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,395 ratings — published 1953
Beyond Fair Chase : The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.25 — 483 ratings — published 1994
African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist (Capstick Adventure Library)
by (shelved 15 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.02 — 422 ratings — published 1988
Death in the Silent Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.36 — 784 ratings — published 1981
Death in the Dark Continent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.41 — 684 ratings — published 1983
Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.39 — 697 ratings — published 1953
Mapping Trophy Bucks (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.51 — 71 ratings — published 2003
The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)
by (shelved 12 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,524 ratings — published 1954
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,324,764 ratings — published 2015
Precision Bowhunting: A Year-Round Approach to Taking Mature Whitetails (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.26 — 159 ratings — published 2005
The Magic Finger (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hunting)
avg rating 3.70 — 45,622 ratings — published 1966
The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.29 — 389 ratings — published 1988
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.10 — 258 ratings — published 1993
Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.28 — 319 ratings — published 1990
Meditations on Hunting (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.00 — 169 ratings — published 1943
The Most Dangerous Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hunting)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,066 ratings — published 1924
The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.49 — 996 ratings — published
Tenth Legion: Tips, Tactics, And Insights On Turkey Hunting (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.59 — 464 ratings — published 1997
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.07 — 50,966 ratings — published 2012
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,336 ratings — published 2006
Wild Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,976 ratings — published 2011
The African Adventurers: A Return to the Silent Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.25 — 235 ratings — published 1992
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as hunting)
avg rating 3.94 — 911,439 ratings — published 2021
Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,293 ratings — published 2022
If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.01 — 480 ratings — published 2007
The Jim Corbett Omnibus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,019 ratings — published 1991
The Kenneth Anderson Omnibus: Volume 1: Tales from the Indian Jungle, Man-Eaters and Jungle Killers, The Call of the Man-Eater (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.54 — 548 ratings — published 2008
Safari: The Last Adventure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.21 — 170 ratings — published 1984
BACKCOUNTRY BOWHUNTING A Guide to the Wild Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.47 — 124 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,768,249 ratings — published 2010
Maneaters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.24 — 258 ratings — published 1989
Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as hunting)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,370 ratings — published 2022
Heartsblood: Hunting, Spirituality, and Wildness in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.29 — 96 ratings — published 2000
Hunting with the Bow & Arrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as hunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 310 ratings — published 1923
“Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men--some more fluently than others.”
― The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
― The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
“This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense. It has little in common with the obsession of the politician or the artist, for instance, for both of these understand in a greater or lesser degree the impulse which drives them. But the sportsman fanatic - that is another matter entirely.
His thoughts fixed solely on a vision of that mounted trophy against the wall, the eyes now dead that were once living, the tremulous nostrils stilled, the sensitive pricked ears closed to sound at the instant when the rifle shot echoed from the naked rocks, this man hunts his quarry through some instinct unknown even to himself.
Stephen was a sportsman of this kind. It was not the skill needed that drove him, nor the delight and excitement of the stalk itself, but a desire, so I told myself, to destroy something beautiful and rare. Hence his obsession with chamois. ("The Chamois")”
― Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
His thoughts fixed solely on a vision of that mounted trophy against the wall, the eyes now dead that were once living, the tremulous nostrils stilled, the sensitive pricked ears closed to sound at the instant when the rifle shot echoed from the naked rocks, this man hunts his quarry through some instinct unknown even to himself.
Stephen was a sportsman of this kind. It was not the skill needed that drove him, nor the delight and excitement of the stalk itself, but a desire, so I told myself, to destroy something beautiful and rare. Hence his obsession with chamois. ("The Chamois")”
― Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
