SIXTY YEARS A HUNTER. By Bill Quimby.

2010 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 236mm). Ppxvi,336. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w sketches by the author. Decorative publisher's end-papers. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

As the longtime editor of SCI's Safari magazine, Quimby had the chance to hunt on multiple continents for all the sundry game animals found there. In this book he tells us of hunts across North and South America; South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other parts of Africa; Spain; Mongolia; and New Zealand. Chapters include:- Everything must start someplace; Mule deer - my first big-game animal; The only creature I'm smarter than; Arizona whitetails are special; My quest for Householder's big ten; Pronghorn and bear - numbers seven and eight; Two months on horseback for a lion; A desert ram makes it ten; Expanding my horizons beyond Arizona; Wyoming's one shot antelope hunt; A big moose and a lot of snow; Has anyone seen our caribou guide?; Africa! I wanted to pinch myself; Kudus, sables, and six-ton rattlesnakes; A tour of the 'old' South Africa; "For as long as it takes"; Collecting specimens for the SCI museum; I find the "real" Africa; After a miss, my best-ever trophy; My Mongolian adventure begins; I pet a yak, sleep in a yurt, hunt a (Y) elk; Europe, the South Pacific, and South America; It's been a good life.