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I enjoy reading, never ready read many "hunting stories" books until recently, when I picked up 2 Peter Capstick books. They were [/i]Death in the Long Grass, and [i]Death in silent Places.
That got me wanting to read more of the same style/type of book. I want to get a few more of Capstick's books,and maybe Jim Corbet. Any other good solid hunting stories I should be looking for? I prefer these be somewhat child friendly with language etc as I have 2 younger boys that are fascinated with books! Thanks!
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Are you familiar with Robert Ruark?
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I just read Gary Paulsen’s “Hatchet” to my daughter. Basically, a 13 year old has to survive by themselves. Requires hunting, gathering, resourcefulness, and resilience. The kid learns, innovates, and has to put self-pity aside.
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Are you familiar with Robert Ruark? Heard the name, not sure I ever read any of his stuff.
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I just read Gary Paulsen’s “Hatchet” to my daughter. Basically, a 13 year old has to survive by themselves. Requires hunting, gathering, resourcefulness, and resilience. The kid learns, innovates, and has to put self-pity aside. Read that one a while ago
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Hemingway's The Green Hills Of Africa and The Nick Adams Stories present some interesting visions.
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Try some of Havala Babcock , Gene Hill and Patrick Mc Manaus.
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Not exactly what you’re looking for, but “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold is good for our “type”.
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Are you familiar with Robert Ruark? Heard the name, not sure I ever read any of his stuff. Check out The Old Man and the Boy and [u][The Old Man's Boy Grows Older/u].
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Summer of the Monkeys, Hatchet, babcock, archibald Rutledge, Ramblings of Lowcountry Gamewarden, Sunrise on the Santee
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Are you familiar with Robert Ruark? Heard the name, not sure I ever read any of his stuff. Begin with Something of Value. A very good read.
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I just read Gary Paulsen’s “Hatchet” to my daughter. Basically, a 13 year old has to survive by themselves. Requires hunting, gathering, resourcefulness, and resilience. The kid learns, innovates, and has to put self-pity aside. A pretty good movie was made from that Hatchet story. I watched it years ago. L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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I just read Gary Paulsen’s “Hatchet” to my daughter. Basically, a 13 year old has to survive by themselves. Requires hunting, gathering, resourcefulness, and resilience. The kid learns, innovates, and has to put self-pity aside. A pretty good movie was made from that Hatchet story. I watched it years ago. L.W. There are a few books that came out as sequels. The River is based on the kid taking a journalist into the wilderness and they end up having to survive. Paulsen also wrote an alternate universe where the boy wasn’t rescued and had to survive the winter. Great stories!
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The Wilderness of Denali by Charles Sheldon, my all time favorite book. I read it to my children and we discussed
it frequently over several years. The kids will get a sense of the power of knowledge when combined with curiosity and a love of nature and adventure. They will get an appreciation of history and the difficulties of life that were accepted and routine in that era. Reading to and with your kids is a gift that my parents taught me that is now a tradition in our family.
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For kids? Jim Kjelgaards Big Red series.
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Are you familiar with Robert Ruark? Heard the name, not sure I ever read any of his stuff. Begin with Something of Value. A very good read. Excellent, but I'd start him off on the "Boy" books, especially if involving his sons. Then I'd have him move on to Horn of the Hunter.
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Some of my favorite hunting / fishing books:
1.William Faulkner- short stories, The Big Woods
2. Robert Ruark- The Old Man and The Boy, The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older
3. Nash Buckingham- The Best of Nash Buckingham
4. Gene Hill
5 Patrick MacManus
6. Jim Corbett
7. Rudyard Kipling- The Jungle Book
8. Willie Morris- My Dog Skip + the movie
9. Jack O’Conner
10. Craig Boddington - Hunting Rifles
11. Jack London - The Portable Jack London
12. ISHI - The Last of His Tribe
BTW: Something of Value was also made into a movie as well as some of Faulkner’s short stories
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Witness by Whittaker Chambers about his life as a communist and after
LBJ, The mastermind behind the JFK assassination Phillip Nelson
Crossfire Jim Marrs
Klop Britain's most ingenious secret agent Peter Day
Solving 911 Christopher Bollyn
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Lots of great recommendations, I’ll ad “A millionaires dream” by Brett Wynocott(sp?)
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