LOVE OF THE HUNT: A LIFETIME IN PURSUIT OF DEER, ELK, BEARS, WATERFOWL, AND UPLAND BIRDS. By John Winsor.

2001 1st edition. 8vo (154 x 234mm). Ppxii,238. Colour and b/w photograph plates. Two-tone beige paper covered boards, silver-gilt titles to green spine.

"Come along with John Winsor as he survives a floatplane crash on the Alaskan Peninsula; watches the odometer on his old Chevy Suburban cross the 400,000-mile mark on yet another hunting trip; lives with the Inuit in the Northwest Territory on a caribou hunt; witnesses a black bear escaping the raging gires in Yellowstone Park; and listens to a bull elk taunt him from across a frozen meadow". Chapters include: Challenged; The beginning; The mouth; Telegraph Creek; Alone; Crash landing; How ya gonna mount it?; Revenge of the lion; Getting even; The initiation - John; The initiation - Sue; The initiation - Tom; Prince Rupert images' Doc's arrangements; Pond Lilly; Ole Blue; Strangers; Inuit wisdom; Marriage proposal; Soul music; Rocky Mountain oysters; Eulogy for a bear; You wouldn't; Dancing in the moonlight; The shirttail buck; Newfoundland images; Wood River; Yukon images; Alaska images; What did she say?; The miracle; Wolf ghost; Where've you been?; Challenged again.