HUNTING BIG GAME: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE AND THRILLING ADVENTURES. VOLUME II: THE AMERICAS. Edited by Townsend Whelen.

(1927) 1989 new edition reprint Large 8vo (156 x 234mm). Pp282. B/w photograph plates and line illustrations, patterned end-papers. Quarter-bound in dark brown faux leather over stone cloth, small gilt wolf motif to upper board, four raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, silk marker ribbon.

Originally published by The Military service Publishing Company, 1946. This 1989 reprint of the Wolfe Publishing edition is limited to 1500 copies. The first printing of the Wolfe Publishing edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies. Townsend Whelen presents accounts by and of backwoodsmen and explorers from the last generation when actual exploration was possible. Several chapters each are contributed by: Charles Sheldon (three chapters); Theodore Roosevelt (three chapters); Vilhjalmur Stefansson (six chapters); Daniel Moreau Barringer (four chapters); George W. Sears ('Nessmuk'); Frederick Courteney Selous; Warburton Pike (two chapters); Townsend Whelen (two chapters).