The Fishing Boat: Use the Secrets of the Pros to Select and Outfit Your Boat

The trailerable fishing boat is the single largest financial investment made by anglers in pursuit of their sport. Yet, despite a cascade of claims from sellers and manufacturers of boats and boating accessories, there’s little objective information about how to choose and outfit a boat for maximum fishing efficiency, satisfaction, and safety. With full-color photos throughout, this book gives plain-spoken and reliable advice, covering topics from rod holders to live wells, outboards to trolling motors. Every boating angler will benefit from this book by increased enjoyment of time on the water—and by getting more and bigger fish aboard.

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The Coolest Race on Earth: Mud, Madmen, Glaciers, and Grannies at the Antarctica Marathon

The Coolest Race on Earth is both Hanc’s story and the story of the Antarctica Marathon, first held in 1995 and now an annual event that sells out years in advance. It’s full of humor, adventure, and inspiring characters--including a wheelchair-bound competitor, three record-breaking grandmothers, and an ex-Marine who described the race as “the hardest thing I ever did in my life, next to Vietnam.”

Muddy, cold, hilly, the race is by all accounts horrible--up and down a melting glacier twice, past curious penguins and hostile skuas, and finally to a bleak finish line. Even the best runners take longer to run the Antarctica Marathon than any other.

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Bowled over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCs Era

Former college and professional football player Oriard explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. He gives close attention to decisions by the NCAA in the early 1970s that helped transform student-athletes into athlete-students and turned the college game into a virtual farm league for professional football. The relentless necessity to pursue revenue, he argues, undermines attempts to maintain academic standards, and it fosters a football culture in which athletes are both excessively entitled and exploited.

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Deep Drive

In 2007, Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell triumphed over a lifetime of adversity when he led the world‚'s most zealously followed baseball team to the promised land, with their second World Series title in four years. But there was much more to the story than what happened on that October night.

From his family‚'s battle to escape Cuba and the Castro regime, to the ups and downs of his baseball career, to his battle with testicular cancer, this is the story of a man who overcame every challenge thrown at him to become one of the best third basemen in baseball‚ and a true role model for his millions of fans.

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Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir

Before Lawrence Block was the author of bestselling novels featuring unforgettable characters such as the hit man Keller, private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and time traveler Evan Tanner, he was a walker.

As a child, he walked home from school (mostly because he couldn't ride a bike). As a col-lege student, he walked until he was able to buy his first car (a deep blue 1950 Chevrolet coupe named Pamela, after the Samuel Richardson novel). As an adult, he ran marathons until he discovered what would become a lifelong obsession—never mind if some people didn't think it was a real sport—racewalking.

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Character Driven: Life, Lessons, and Basketball

A three-time NBA champion reveals the Christian faith and family values that shaped his successful career and personal life, describing his achievements, his decision not to play in the 2007 playoffs when his daughter required treatment for a rare form of eye cancer, and his return to the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Basic Trap and Skeet Shooting: All the Skills and Gear You Need to Get Started

The sport of trap and skeet shooting is described in detail for the beginning or experienced shooter. Includes instructions on how to safely handle firearms, load and unload shotguns, determine dominant eye, swing toward the target, follow through, and more. Hundreds of full-color photographs illustrate how to successfully participate in these traditional shotgun sports. Complete with a chapter on gear to get started, this easy-to-use guide covers everything from choosing and transporting a shotgun to setting a stance and ultimately breaking the clays.

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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: The Story of the Most Famous Football Game Every Played in the Ivy League...as Told by the Players

Recounts the dramatic 1968 final-game showdown between the undefeated ivy-league contenders as remembered by athlete participants, describing the contributions of Doonesbury-satirized Yale quarterback Brian Dowling and Harvard lineman and future Hollywood star Tommy Lee Jones.

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Gridiron Gauntlet: The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football, in Their Own Words

One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, four black players joined the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams to become the first African-American pro football players in the modern era. Players who began their careers from 1946 to 1955 reminisce about the violence they faced on and off the field, the world of segregation and the violence it brought, but also of white players and coaches who assisted and supported their careers.

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Spies In The Deer Woods: How to Hunt Game and Monitor Wildlife With a Scouting Camera

One of the hottest new tools for hunters, the scouting camera has become a deer hunter's best friend. Scouting cameras, triggered by heat and motion, provide clues to the habits and whereabouts of deer travelling through your favourite hunting area. Wildlife watchers and families are using these cameras, too, because they enjoy knowing what passes by when no one is around. The authors give advice on how to buy the right camera, how to set it up in the optimal location, how to encourage wildlife to visit, and how to interpret the photos you get. "Spies in the Deer Woods" is full of ideas on how to use these cameras to scout out your next big buck or bear.

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Aggressive Volleyball

SUPERANNO Aggressive Volleyball teaches techniques used by author Pete Waite in leading his Wisconsin Badger team to a record of 228-67 and nine NCAA tournament berths. It shows how to elevate one's offense, defense, and transition play through a full-team effort of heightened competitiveness and aggressive play. With more than eleven million participants in the U.S., the popularity of volleyball is on the rise, as is the competition within the club, high school, and collegiate games.

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The Dandy Dons: Bill Russell, K. C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and One of College Basketball's Greatest and Most Innovative Teams

In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport. James W. Johnson traces the backgrounds of the coach and players, chronicles the heart-stopping games on the road to the championships, and details the Dons’ novel techniques: a more vertical game, more central defense, and intimidation as part of game strategy. He also gives a textured picture of life on an integrated basketball team amid a culture of racism and Jim Crow in mid-twentieth-century America. Check Catalog

Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back

Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, estrangement from friends and family, and his eventual suspension from baseball.

BEYOND BELIEF details the events that led up to the derailment. Josh explains how a young man destined for fame and wealth could allow his life to be taken over by drugs and alcohol. But it is also the memoir of a spiritual journey that breaks through pain and heartbreak and leads to the rebirth of his major-league career.

Josh Hamilton makes no excuses and places no blame on anyone other than himself. He takes responsibility for his poor decisions and believes his story can help millions who battle the same demons. "I have been given a platform to tell my story" he says. "I pray every night I am a good messenger."

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LT & Me: What Raising a Champion Taught Me About Life, Faith, and Listening to Your Dreams

The mother of San Diego Chargers running back and NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson recounts the contents of a letter written by LT as a high-school senior in which he promised her he would go to college, play football professionally, and earn her pride, in a personal account in which she describes how he fulfilled each promise while overcoming difficult obstacles.

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Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball

Stolen Bases also looks at American softball, which was originally invented by men who wanted to keep playing baseball indoors during cold winter months but has become the consolation sport for most female players. Throughout her analysis, Ring searches for ways to rescue baseball from its arrogance and exclusionary entitlement and to restore the great American sport's more optimistic nickname: the people's game.

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Bowling Execution

Bowling Execution will show you how to

• improve each phase of your shot, from stance to follow-through;
• increase the accuracy of your hook;
• incorporate the free armswing for smoother mechanics;
• generate more power behind your shot to create greater pin action;
• analyze lane conditions and adjust your game accordingly; and
• develop strategies for achieving your personal best.
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My View from the Corner: A Life in Boxing

My View from the Corner is his story in his own words. It is also the story of the legendary ring warriors he has forged into champions, including all-time greats Muhammad Ali, "Sugar" Ray Leonard, and George Foreman, as well as champs such as Willie Pastrano and Carmen Basilio. But you won't just read about prize fighters. Dundee can't tell his tale without including an amazing cast of characters who could only exist in the larger-than-life world of professional boxing. You'll find engrossing stories involving everyone from sportscaster Howard Cosell to artist LeRoy Nieman to mobster Frank Costello. Muhammad Ali also contributes a foreword of his own--delivering his personal insights on Dundee--the man, the friend, and the boxing trainer.
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The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound

Ron Darling has been beloved by Mets fans since he helped his team win the 1986 World Series. Today he is considered one of the most articulate and insightful broadcasters in baseball, bringing the game to life in ways that few can match. Now he gives us an engaging, sophisticated, practical, and philosophical exploration of the art, strategy, and psychology of pitching.

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Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love With the New York Yankees

Two months into the 2007 baseball season, novelist Jane Heller, an obsessed Yankee fan heartsick over their poor play, announced her intention to divorce the team, on grounds of mental cruelty, in the pages of the New York Times. Her words inflamed the passions of sports lovers across the country, and her piece quickly became the newspaper’s most e-mailed and talked-about article in the week it ran.

The intense reaction of fans forced Heller to look inward, and to re-examine her feelings about winning and losing. Was she a “bandwagon” fan, as some branded her? A traitor? In this witty, observant, and decidedly female look at the nature of the bond between fan and team, Jane Heller goes in search of answers. With her husband as her traveling partner, she literally follows the Bronx Bombers through the rest of their challenging 2007 season, hoping to score interviews with the players, watch every game in every city, and inject some excitement into her marriage.

Through interactions with other fans, as well as members of the media covering the Yankees, plus game-by-game analyses, Heller learns personal life lessons about competition, loyalty, and acceptance—and about why baseball, like any truly romantic relationship, requires commitment, patience, and a deep, abiding love.
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American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime

Discusses the recent rise of steroid use in major league baseball and its possible causes, using the highly publicized investigation of pitcher Roger Clemens's alleged steroid use as a case study.

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Until It Hurts: America's Obsession With Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids

Near the end of a long season, fourteen-year-old baseball pitcher Ben Hyman approached his father with disappointing, if not surprising, news: his pitching shoulder was tired. With each throw to home plate, he felt a twinge in his still maturing arm. Any doctor would have advised the young boy to take off the rest of the season. Author Mark Hyman sent his son out to pitch the next game. After all, it was play-off time. Stories like these are not uncommon. Over the last seventy-five years, adults have staged a hostile takeover of kids’ sports. In 2003 alone, more than 3.5 million children under age fifteen required medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which were the result of simple overuse. The quest to turn children into tomorrow’s superstar athletes has often led adults to push them beyond physical and emotional limits. In Until It Hurts, journalist, coach, and sports dad Mark Hyman explores how youth sports reached this problematic state.

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Roller Coasters: United States and Canada

The third edition of this guide to roller coasters has been updated with new photographs, statistics and descriptions as well as an essay on the future of roller coaster technology and design. Throgmorton is an independent author and roller coaster enthusiast, and he divides this volume for general readers into separate sections for the history of these amusement park rides and a full survey of more than 600 coasters across North America. Appendices include biographies of famous designers, a chronology of wooden roller coasters still in operation and a section containing coaster trivia.

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Knack Car Camping for Everyone

No more rummaging through a chaotically packed car and then frantically setting up camp in the dark—not with Knack Car Camping for Everyone, which distills the authors’ years of experience into an idea-packed, picture-driven guide. The first such reference created for visual learners, it gives you the tools you need to make car camping the pleasure it is meant to be. From choosing a sleeping bag and setting up a tent to overcoming challenges like weather, insects, and safety concerns, the answers are all here in this definitive one-volume camping idea book.
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Fishing for Everyone: The Complete Illustrated Guide

Before you hook yet another clump of weeds, take heart with Knack Fishing for Everyone, a quick-reading, picture-driven guide to fishing with style and success. The first such reference created for visual learners, it guides you to becoming a capable and knowledgeable angler—one who, with a set of basic skills, starts catching fish and continues to do so, refining your techniques as you go. It presents all the essentials of fishing, using various kinds of tackle, for a variety of both freshwater and saltwater species. Step-by-step full-color photo sequences and information-packed, clearly worded instructions are the hallmarks of this definitive one-volume resource.
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Netball: Steps to Success

Netball: Steps to Success gives players a solid grounding in the game. By teaching correct footwork and the fundamental skills of catching, passing and shooting, it provides a solid platform from which to progress to competitive game play. These skills are practiced and honed through a series of drills that feature a scoring system designed to accelerate your progress.
Once you master the basic skills, Netball: Steps to Success takes you on the court and prepares you for any situation. Detailed instruction, complemented by full-colour photographs and illustrations, will teach you the defensive and attacking strategies needed for winning play, whatever your playing level.
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Longshot: The Adventures of a Deaf Fundamentalist Mormon Kid and His Journey to the NBA

The NBA's first legally hearing-impaired player traces his unlikely journey from the son of a Montana polygamist to a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, in an account that describes his relationship with grandfather Rulon Allred, his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and his professional playing experiences in Europe.

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Wingnut Complete Surfing

A professional surfer and instructor covers every important area of surfing wisdom, including wave dynamics, board design and performance, and strategies for paddling out through the wave breaks, along with photographs and illustrations that clearly demonstrate each move.

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Straw: Finding My Way

The former National League All-Star baseball player traces his rise from a disadvantaged Los Angeles youth to 1983's Rookie of the Year, describing the numerous challenges he has met in personal and professional arenas from his brushes with the law and fight with colon cancer to his devotion to his family and advocacy on behalf of autistic children.

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The Sports Rules Book

This guide presents basic information for 54 sports. For each sport, it describes the history, basic procedures, rules, terminology, competitive playing areas, equipment, scoring, player positions, and official's signals. Age-based and skill-related modifications are also included for many sports.

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The Code: Baseball's Unwritten Rules

Provides an incisive study of the unspoken rules that govern clubhouse behavior among teammates and with outsiders, discussing this unwritten baseball code, its role in baseball, and the system of intimidation and retaliation between hitters and pitchers, as well as the ties between the baseball code and respect for the game, its history, and other ballplayers.

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The Big One:

In this lively book, Kinney combines a first-person account of a single derby with a history of the tournament itself (and it’s a distinctly checkered history, with allegations of corruption and conspiracy, not to mention a few notable fatalities). He focuses on the personalities involved: the participants in the derby, the organizers, and the residents of Martha’s Vineyard, who for five weeks every year see their island turned into what amounts to a staging area for a sea battle. Fans of you-are-there accounts of sporting competitions will definitely want to read this one.

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Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers' Companion 2009

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association collaborate on the #1 annually updated guide for those who seek to hike the A.T. from end to end.It is especially designed for potential thru-hikers who want the basic information (on towns and shelters and water) for a five- to six-month trek in the woods, at a reasonable price, but also want the adventure of finding out the extras for themselves.

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Pro Tactics, Bass

Bass fishing is the top angling sport in the United States, supporting a 4.8 billion dollar industry. This book teaches the ins and outs of fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass, covers the basics of tackle and equipment, presents detailed instructions for rigging artificial lures, and explains how to find and fish for bass through the seasons and in different water conditions and cover. A final chapter provides advice for anglers who fish in tournaments. The result is a complete, up-to-date course on bass fishing for the beginning to intermediate angler, with valuable tips for experienced anglers.

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Tito Santana's: Tales from the Ring

Tito Santana (a.k.a. Merced Solis) was an All-American football player at West Texas State who was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs. After a short stint playing football in the Canadian Football League (CFL), he entered the world of professional wrestling. For more than a decade in the WWF Santana enjoyed a stellar career. His great success led to induction into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004. He still wrestles part-time, but works full-time teaching middle-school Spanish in New Jersey.

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Forever Blue

A profile of the enigmatic owner of the Dodgers chronicles the Tammany Hall origins that enabled him to become wealthy during the Depression, his clashes with power broker Robert Moses, and how the team's relocation and stadium construction shaped Los Angeles.

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Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football

Describes how Benny Friedman grew from the son of working-class immigrants living in Cleveland's Jewish ghetto to become one of the earliest legends of the game through his unique forward pass techniques, later signing with the Giants and bringing much-needed attention to the NFL in the process.

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The Lost Art of Walking

Geoff Nicholson is a master chronicler of the hidden subversive twists on a seemingly normal activity. He analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages. He finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. Here, he brings curiosity and genuine insight to a subject that often walks right past us.

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The Corporal Was a Pitcher

Corporal Lou Bissie was a promising Major League pitching prospect when an enemy shell almost destroyed his left leg. He not only kept his leg , but went on to a brilliant major league pitching career. Lou's story is one of courage, endurance and finally triumph.

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Ice Fishing

There are almost as many ways to fish as there are fish and fishermen. But among the countless, varied methods available to the modern angler, ice fishing is without a doubt the one most remarkably different from all the others. And it’s not just that the ice fisherman fishes while standing on the water. The methods of ice fishing are unique to the sport. The angler who has learned his craft on summer bass ponds and cool mountain trout streams has to learn it all over again when he takes to the ice

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How to use focus pads and punch bags to achieve your best ever fitness level.

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Full Court Quest

Ten young women from the Fort Shaw Indian School shock the world by winning the World Championship at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

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Confident Powerboating

ConfidentPowerboating addresses your safety concerns, providing a detailed guide to avoiding problems, coping with difficult situations, and responding to emergencies effectively. Also, each section contains several anecdotes of problems encountered and resolved (or not).

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Pete Maravich: The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete

A portrait based on access to the NBA star's personal records offers insight into his NCAA records, placement as one of the NBA's top fifty players, psychological troubles, post-retirement depression, religious faith, and early death at the age of forty.

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Life of Evel: Evel Knievel

A commemorative portrait, published to coincide with the first anniversary of his death, covers such topics as the record-breaking bike stuntman's contribution to the establishment of extreme sports, his battles with addiction, and his financial ups and downs.

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The Yankee Years

The former Yankees manager provides a thought-provoking and candid behind-the-scenes study of the Yankees organization, from top to bottom, detailing the challenges of working for a team in which executives and the media question every decision, managing a clubhouse of superstars, and the issues confronting modern baseball.

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Running for Mortals:

You don’t have to run fast or competitively to reap the rewards that running has to offer. What you do need is the courage to start. That is the "Penguin mantra" that has enabled John Bingham—through his best-selling book No Need for Speed, his popular monthly column for Runner’s World magazine, and his many appearances at major running events throughout the year—to inspire thousands of men and women to take up the sport for fitness and the sheer enjoyment that running brings them.

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Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die

Draws on the expertise of diving authorities from around the world to describe fifty of their favorite diving destinations for divers to experience their unique underwater wonders, ranging from such Caribbean favorites as the Grand Cayman Isles to Lembognan, Indonesia, accompanied by helpful trip planning suggestions.

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This is the first-ever biography of the legendary wrestler Gorgeous George, filled with incredible never-before-told stories. George directly influenced the likes of Muhammad Ali, who took his bragging and boasting from George; James Brown, who began to wear sequined capes onstage after seeing George on TV; John Waters, whose films featured the outrageous drag queen Divine as an homage to George; and too many wrestlers to count. Amid these pop culture discoveries are firsthand accounts of the pro wrestling game from the 1930s to the 1960s.--From publisher description.
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Chasing the Hunters' Dream: 1001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hun

An illustrated reference to 1,001 top-selected hunting destinations throughout the world draws on the authors' personal experiences with hunting big and small game, shares tips for traveling on a budget, and covers how to pursue trophies internationally.

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