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I’m going on a remote Alaskan moose hunt in September. The gear list calls for 2 books. I’ve been told it sometimes rains for days and boredom can be an issue. IM NOT A BIG READER. I hear folks talking about not being able to put a book down, but I can count on 2 fingers how many books I’ve been able to finish. I like guns, history, adventure, , prehistoric man, mountain men, Native Americans, and the glory days of big game hunting in North America..specifically the north country. I like upland hunting, trapping and buckskinning.
I desperately need recommendations on a couple of really really awesome books. Thanks!!!
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West with the night - Beryl Markham.
Pick any Capstick. Maybe Death in the Long Grass.
WWTN is an outstanding book.
Capstick is an easy entertaining read. Wouldn’t call him pulp, but again.....easy entertainment.
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Maybe Ruark.
Old man and the Boy is fantastic. As is Uhuru, Honey Badger and several others.
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Flags of Our Fathers
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Start with Horn of the Hunter by Ruark and then maybe a Steven Hunter novel about Bob Lee or his Dad.
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Shōgun by James Clavell. One of the best books ever written.
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If you can find it, Voices From the Wilderness. Each chapter is about a different frontiersman, and it starts in the 17th century near the Atlantic and progresses generally west and/or north, and more recent. Being a bunch of different stories should fit in with uncertainty of duration being cooped up.
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This book is not about game hunting but it is about whale hunting and the outdoors. The movie "In The Heart Of The Sea" , is about the true story and the man that inspired the novel "Moby Dick".
The book "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick is the true account of the whale ramming the ship and the survivors that went through hell trying to make it home. I read it because I saw the movie and the book is much greater detail. It is real interesting and I'm not much of a reader also.
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Alaska's Wolfman by Jim Rearden
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I read Where the Red Fern Grows a few years back. Hadn’t read it in 25-30 years. Had forgotten what a great story it is.
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Moby Dick - Herman Melville. Look no further. The greatest single piece of American Literature ever written/added to The Western Canon.
It is what it is.
Read it.
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This book is not about game hunting but it is about whale hunting and the outdoors. The movie "In The Heart Of The Sea" , is about the true story and the man that inspired the novel "Moby Dick".
The book "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick is the true account of the whale ramming the ship and the survivors that went through hell trying to make it home. I read it because I saw the movie and the book is much greater detail. It is real interesting and I'm not much of a reader also. Heart of the Sea was a great book!
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Journal Of A Trapper is a good one.
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Blood & Thunder by Hampton Sides (the biography of Kit Carson)
Endurance by Alfred Lansing (the Shackleton Antarctic expedition)
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (300 Spartans at Thermopylae)
Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
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Journal Of A Trapper is a good one. That is one of the two books I’ve been able to finish.
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Red Storm Rising; Tom Clancy
Triple Zeck; Rex Stout
Old guy, old guns.
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Find your own hero, or antithesis!
Marvel at …. The WHITENESS of The Whale..
“I see in him amazing strength, sinewed with an inscrutable malice. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I HATE; and be The White Whale agent, or be he principal, I will wreak that hatred upon him!” - Ahab
We all have our demons. And our targets.
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Then there’s The Crew….
Some character for everyone to relate to.
I enjoyed Stubbs, best
To each their own, on a ship of fools. Or hunters. Or lost causes.
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Lonesome Dove & Ship of Gold,,,,,
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Any of the books authored by F.C. Selous.
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