OVIS AMMON: THE ARGALI TRAIL. By Jose Madrazo.

2010 1st English edition. Large 4to (220 x 285mm). Ppxx,200. B/w photographs and illustrations, maps. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Jose Madrazo has devoted his hunting career to the greatest sheep of the all, the Ovis ammon or argali. [Madrazo] began his quest for Marco Polo sheep with a hunt in Tajikistan, and since then he has taken multiple trips in his search for different argali, ...that have the longest horns, the most mass, and live at the highest altitudes. They make any other sheep look, well, small. ...High elevation hunting that is only for the strongest and fittest. Oxygen is scarce, conditions are difficult, and the shots are sometimes impossible. As Madrazo discovers, however, in the end it is all well worth the journey". Chapters include: Marco Polo in Balandkiik; The Tian Shan ram - Karelini; In pursuit of the Littledale in Dzungarsky Alatu; The little Nigromontana argali; The Sair argali; The controversial Nura Tau argali; Hunting the Gensu or Dalalamae argali across Tibet; The Siberian peneplain and the Karaganda argali; In China's Inner Mongolia for Gobi argali; The Hangai argali - a Mongolian marketing ploy; After Altai argali in freezing November weather. First published (in Spanish) by La Travere, Madrid, in 2007. This is the first English language translation, with Forewords by Ricardo Medem and Dennis Campbell.