GREAT HUNTERS: THEIR TROPHY ROOMS AND COLLECTIONS: VOLUME SEVEN.

Great Hunters.

ISBN 10: 157157428X / ISBN 13: 9781571574282

Published by Safari Press. Long Beach, California. 2013, 2012

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2013). 2013 1st edition. Folio (235 x 310mm). Ppvi,218. Colour photographs throughout. Red boards, spine titled in black. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. A lavish and elaborate celebration of the taxidermist's art. A number of wealthy big-game hunters show off their extraordinary collections of mounted game and big-game animals. Author or editor not named. This is Safari Press's project to record, and make available, as many trophy collections as possible. The anonymous author observed that trophy collections seem to last about twenty-five years before being broken up and disposed of, and took steps to record the numerous collections currently in existence. The collections presented in this series are mainly in America, but collections in other countries are included. The owners of the collections range from keen amateur big game hunters to well-known professionals such as Kenneth Whitehead. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 50.00.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: GREAT HUNTERS: THEIR TROPHY ROOMS AND COLLECTIONS: VOLUME SEVEN.
• Publisher: Safari Press. Long Beach, California. 2013
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157157428X
• ISBN 13: 9781571574282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The modern era of the trophy room, as depicted in this 7th volume in the Great Hunters series, has brought us a cornucopia of rooms that are sometimes overwhelming to the senses. What do you make, for example, of the collection of Dick and Mary Cabela, which includes a pool and a library as well as acres of re-created habitat filled with life-size mounted animals?As has been the case from the start of this series, we highlight only interesting, tasteful, superlative trophy rooms. Each time we complete a volume we think there are no more rooms to discover, but every time we find more, and many even greater than the last. As before, we have rooms from all over the Canada, Europe, and the USA. Besides private collections, we have managed to find several European hunting museum collections, two of which are housed in ancient buildings in France and showcase the rich hunting traditions of the French and their vast colonial possessions in Asia and Africa. Then there is an Alpine house in Germany that features the collection of Günter Wulff, which was converted to a museum upon his death. The room of George D’Aoust has a life-size giraffe as well as numerous dioramas of gamefish as well as a few hundred life-size mammals. The collection of Texan Mike Simpson, a Weatherby Award Winner, was moved to a new location and completely redone with hardwood floors and natural stone as well as very interesting guest bedrooms. Another hunter, Doug Stromberg, has a great many mounts and an entire skeleton of a brown bear, which makes for a very interesting change of scenery. The room of Mark Dickson is serene with wooden floors and wood paneling and features a delightful collection of decoys as well as big-game trophies and a very well appointed wine cellar next door.You will not be disappointed in this volume, which, like its predecessors, features some of the best trophy collections in the world.