TO HECK WITH IT, I'M GOING HUNTING; My First Eighteen Years as an International Big-Game Hunter

Alward A. (with Bill Quimby)

Published by Safari Press

About this Item

2003 Long Beach, 1st edn, 316pp, profuse color and b&w photos, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. After Arnold Alward of New Brunswick sold his businesses he spent the next eighteen years hunting, taking nearly all the world's important big-game species, which eventually won him the Weatherby Award. During the course of his hunts, he shot a Grand Slam and a Super Slam of Sheep and the Big Five as well as all the spiral-horned antelope of Africa. His busiest year was 1988, when he made thirteen major hunts! When he went on safari to Ethiopia, he passed up a 75-pound elephant before taking a 110 x 115-pound tusker on the tenth day of the hunt; then he continued in that country to take a mountain nyala. In Asia, he hunted most of the major sheep species that inhabit the High Altai, the Pamirs, and the Tibetan Plateau. During one of his trips to Mongolia, he slept in yurts, rode Mongol ponies, and took Altai and Gobi argali, Siberian roe deer, and maral stag. On another trip he encountered some of the worst weather possible on the face of the earth. He was not always successful, but he stayed with it and kept his good humor. Alward's hunts were always full of adventure: His polar bear hunt was delayed when his guide's daughter murdered her boyfriend, and on the opposite end of the globe, Alward landed in Zambia during a rebellion, when dissenters seized a TV station and the government rolled tanks out into the streets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TO HECK WITH IT, I'M GOING HUNTING; My First Eighteen Years as an International Big-Game Hunter
• Publisher: Safari Press
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine in fine slipcase.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sheep & Mountains
  • North & South America
  • Eurasia & South Pacific