Hunting's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)

In this powerful collection, classics including Guy de Maupassants Love and Ernest Hemingways The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber join contemporary offerings such as Wallace Stegners The Blue-Winged Teal, On the Antler by E. Annie Proulx, and David Quammens Walking Out. From duck, goose, and grouse hunting to stiffer contests for deer, elk, moose, bear, and big African gamein one case, even a manhuntall kinds of hunting and all possible outcomes, from the comic to the heartwarming, disastrous, or bizarre, are explored. Against the backdrop of ocean, frozen swamp, forest, or jungle, we see the deep bonds between father and son, huntsman and dog, man and nature being forged or shattered as the line between sport and survival blurs, and the hunter risks becoming prey to weather, to circumstance, or to human and animal foes.