A Poacher S Way

Author : Alastair McIntosh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532634451

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Poacher's Pilgrimage by Alastair McIntosh Pdf

The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic era. Over a twelve-day pilgrimage, often in appalling conditions, Alastair McIntosh returns to the islands of his childhood and explores the meaning of these places. Traversing moors and mountains, struggling through torrential rivers, he walks from the most southerly tip of Harris to the northerly Butt of Lewis. The book is a walk through space and time, across a physical landscape and into a spiritual one. As he battled with his own ability to endure some of the toughest terrain in Britain, he met with the healing power of the land and its communities. This is a moving book, a powerful reflection not simply of this extraordinary place and its people met along the way, but of imaginative hope for humankind.

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poachers
ISBN : 1852238593

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A Poacher's Way by John Bailey Pdf

Author : W. Aaron Vandiver
Publisher : BQB Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781952782497

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Under a Poacher's Moon by W. Aaron Vandiver Pdf

In this explosive debut novel, W. Aaron Vandiver takes readers into the South African Bush, with its stunning landscapes, its dazzling and deadly wildlife, and its dark underbelly of violence. Against this dramatic backdrop, Under a Poacher's Moon tells an unflinching story of two people who fight desperately to save Africa's wildlife, sometimes with tragic unintended consequences, as they search for passion and meaning in a dangerous and unpredictable world. Anna Whitney travels to Mzansi, a remote safari lodge located deep in the wilds of South Africa, hoping to get as far away from home and her troubled life as possible. The perilous beauty of the land captures her imagination, but when she hears the haunting late-night cries of an injured rhino, her escapist fantasies collide with brutal reality. She and Chris, a safari guide wrestling with his own secret demons, find themselves embroiled in a war on Africa's wildlife. They are pulled into a struggle that brings them face-to-face with shocking acts of violence, rogue officials, armed gangs, vicious wild predators, and their own deepest fears. It is a conflict that threatens to destroy them, or lead them toward a new and better life together.

Author : Bob Tovey,Brian Tovey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471135683

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The Last English Poachers by Bob Tovey,Brian Tovey Pdf

In deepest Gloucestershire a secret way of life is clinging to a fragile existence. This is the world of the last English poachers - men who have lived off the land, taking game from the big country estates, risking the wrath of gamekeepers in order to feed their families and make a modest livelihood. Bob and Brian Tovey are poachers of the old stripe: a father and son of 75 and 50 years old respectively, who are continuing their ancestors' traditions, reluctant to surrender the old ways of sourcing food from nature. Writer John McDonald has obtained unique access to the men's lives and histories, and tells their fascinating story in their own words. The book is filled with anecdotes both moving and hilarious, as their sense of self-preservation, mistrust of outsiders and suspicions of modern technology express themselves in daily life. It is set against the backdrop of country sports as they used to be - and colourfully explains the shoots, the once-legal coursing meets, the centuries' old techniques of lamping, ferreting and netting and, of course, how the poachers outwit the keepers and police and escape with their quarry. It is a genuine, colourful and offbeat chronicle that documents rural life from a whole new perspective and a sense of humour.

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135964696

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Textual Poachers by Henry Jenkins Pdf

An ethnographic study of communities of media fans, their interpretative strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices. Jenkins focuses on fans of popular TV programmes, including Star Trek and The Professionals.

Author : Tom Franklin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061856846

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Poachers by Tom Franklin Pdf

An Edgar Award winner, Tom Franklin’s Poachers collects ten stunning, bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River. Staking his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice, Tom Frankin’s lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching—a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella, three wild boys confront a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt. And, as a weathered, hand-painted sign reads: “Jesus is not coming.” This terrain isn’t pretty, isn’t for the weak of heart, but in these deperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human. “While he may occasionally wax sentimental about life in the impoverished South, Franklin’s style is often as laconic and simply spoken as his characters’ dialogue, sometimes close to Hemingway, but more often akin to Denis Johnson or Raymond Carver in its resonant ordinariness.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : John F.L.S. Watson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547364757

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Poachers and Poaching by John F.L.S. Watson Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Poachers and Poaching" by John F.L.S. Watson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415533287

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Textual Poachers by Henry Jenkins Pdf

The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. This reissue of what's become a classic work includes an interview between Jenkins and Suzanne Scott and a supplemental study guide by Louisa Stein, encouraging students to consider fan cultures in relation to consumer capitalism, genre, gender, sexuality, interpretation and more.

Author : Munsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521232848

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Gentlemen and Poachers by Munsche Pdf

The eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny. By imposing a property qualification on sportsmen, they effectively denied all but country gentlemen the right to take game or even to possess a gun. Those who challenged the gentry's monopoly were fined or imprisoned, usually after only a summary hearing by the local justice of the peace. In the early nineteenth century, it was claimed that one out of every four inmates in England's prisons was an offender against the game laws. Bitterly denounced at the time, they have continued to be condemned by historians as arbitrary, savage and unjust. This book is the first full scholarly examination of the English game laws. Based on material drawn from over two dozen archives - including judicial records, estate correspondence and personal diaries - it attempts to explain what the laws actually were, why they were passed, how they were enforced and why they were eventually repealed. The picture which emerges from this investigation challenges the conventional wisdom about the game laws in a number of important respects.

Author : John F.L.S. Watson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547159674

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The Confessions of a Poacher by John F.L.S. Watson Pdf

The poacher of these "Confessions" is no imaginary being. In the following pages the author has set down nothing but what has come within his own personal experience; and, although the little book is full of strange inconsistencies, he cannot, knowing the man, call them by a harder name. Nature made old "Phil" a Poacher, but she made him a Sportsman and a Naturalist at the same time. Although eighty years of age there is still some of the old erectness in his carriage; some of the old fire in his eyes. As a young man he was handsome, though now his features are battered out of all original conception. His silvery hair still covers a lion-like head, and his tanned cheeks are hard and firm. If his life has been a lawless one he has paid heavily for his wrong doings. Great as a poacher, he must have been great whatever he had been.

Author : Richard Peirce
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781775841791

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The Poacher's Moon by Richard Peirce Pdf

When wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce learnt about the targeting of three private game reserves in the Western Cape in 2011 and the butchery of some of their rhinos, he embarked on a crusade to raise public awareness about the horrors of rhino poaching. This is the story of Higgins and Lady, two rhinos from the farm Fairy Glen that defied the odds by surviving a brutal attack. Peirce keeps the reader spellbound as he recounts the series of attacks and their aftermath in chilling detail: the unbearable savagery, suspect police work, shady characters, mysterious happenings and death threats. Reading like a crime thriller, this account of dogged survival, compassion and triumph – along with desperate strategising to outwit the poaching mafia – will have wide appeal. Colour images throughout, taken as the drama unfolded, bring the subject even more vividly to life.

Author : Charlotte Paton
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781905523894

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The King of the Norfolk Poachers: His Life and Times by Charlotte Paton Pdf

In the early 1930s an elderly mole catcher became the subject of one of East Anglia's best-loved tales of country life: "I Walked by Night". Over sixty years later, Norfolk writer Charlotte Paton became fascinated by this man and set out to find the truth about him, beginning with his name: Frederick Rolfe. Charlotte conducted exhaustive research provide a vibrant account with plenty of social history. This book is the biography of a difficult man who could inspire devotion but came to a tragic end.

Author : R. T. Stewart
Publisher : Black Squirrel Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1606351370

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Poachers Were My Prey by R. T. Stewart Pdf

"You ain't no damn game warden, are ya?" the poacher snarled. I looked him straight in the eye and lied. "Game warden . . . ? I ain't no game warden!" The poacher paused, mulling over my answer, and added quietly, "Then why you askin' so many questions?" Thus begins the story of R. T. Stewart's career as an undercover wildlife law enforcement officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife. For nearly two decades, Stewart infiltrated poaching rings throughout Ohio, the Midwest, and beyond. Poachers Were My Prey chronicles his many exciting undercover adventures, detailing the techniques he used in putting poachers behind bars. It also reveals, for the first time, the secrets employed by undercover wildlife officers in catching the bad guys. Poaching--the illegal taking of wild game--goes on every day in the United States and throughout the world. Millions of dollars change hands annually from the illegal sale or trade of antlers, hides, horns, meat, feathers, fur, teeth, claws, gall bladders, and other wild-animal parts. As a result, wildlife populations suffer-- including endangered and threatened species--and legitimate, law-abiding sport hunters get a bad reputation. R. T. Stewart dedi- cated his professional career to stopping such slaughter by actu- ally living with poachers for months or even years. "In essence, being an undercover officer involves living a lie," quips Stewart. "You're always pretending to be someone you're not." Undercover law enforcement is dangerous work and, as a re- sult, extremely stressful. Stewart recalls one particular case during which he realized he was too deeply undercover and came close to forgetting his real identity. Many undercover officers have crossed the line to become the very person they initially swore to stop. In Poachers Were My Prey, readers look over R. T. Stewart's shoulder as he deals with the temptations offered to an undercover officer, including money, sex, and drugs, and watch as he gets the job done and brings the poachers to justice. Poachers Were My Prey will be enjoyed by readers interested in law enforcement, wildlife, preservation, hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.

Author : Thomas de Grey Baron Walsingham,Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Shooting
ISBN : PRNC:32101064794694

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Shooting by Thomas de Grey Baron Walsingham,Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey Pdf

Author : Thomas De Grey Baron Walsingham,Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Shooting
ISBN : IND:30000097460491

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Shooting: Field and covert; with contributions by Hon. Gerald Lascelles and A. J. Stuart-Wortley. 5th ed. 1895. v. 2. Moor and marsh; with contributions by Lord Lovat and Lord Charles Lennox Kerr. 5th ed. 1897 by Thomas De Grey Baron Walsingham,Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey Pdf