Fishing & Hunting

The Sunday Times Bestseller Two comedy greats talk life, friendship and the joys of fishing... Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have been friends for 30 years, but when life intervened, what was once a joyous and spontaneous friendship dwindled to the odd phone call or occasional catch up. Then, Glory Be! They were both diagnosed with heart disease and realised...

Ten percent of all anglers catch 90 percent of the fish taken. It's really true, and shows that as much as it is enjoyable, fishing can be frustrating when it comes to results. 1001 Fishing Tips is the book that will help any angler crack into fishing's elite successful 10 percent, the group that catches more fish and has more...

A reflection on the fishing exploits of yore contrasted against our changing environment. Bob Kearney has been addicted to recreational fishing and is a devout keeper of the legends and lore of the Australian angler. He is also a world authority on fisheries and marine ecosystem management. In Fishing in the Good Old Days, Kearney looks back on his six...

Through the pages of Casting Back, Peter McMullan takes the reader from his youthful Irish beginnings in the 1940s to his time as a young journalist in Northern Ireland during the mid-1950s, through the 1960s and into today's western Canada and a totally different sport fishing environment. Pike and bream, roach, tench and perch were his original targets—what British and...

“Beautiful. ... A lyrical companion to his father’s classic, A River Runs through It, chronicling their family’s history and bond with Montana’s Blackfoot River.” —Washington Post A "poetic" and "captivating" (Publishers Weekly) memoir about the power of place to shape generations, Home Waters is John N. Maclean's remarkable chronicle of his family's century-long love affair with Montana's majestic Blackfoot River,...

Fishing is the inaugural volume in Worlds of Wisdom: The Art of Living, One Saying at a Time, a beautifully illustrated series that delves into timeless wisdom and ancient practices. Curated by Asher Erskine, this volume explores the serene art of fishing through a collection of proverbs, quotes, and reflections, inviting readers to immerse themselves in its contemplative nature. Each...

An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking - the poachers, the traders, and the customers - and of those fighting against it. Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewellery, pets, medicine, meat,...

The Old Man and the Sand Eel is a beautifully written memoir about fishing, family, and the wilds of Great Britain. Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank, whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older, his competitive urge to catch...

This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords of Greenland and the remote islands of Faroe to the dining tables of London's middle classes, the bacalao...

Revised and updated! With more than forty years of experience butchering domestic animals, game, and birds, award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Monte Burch presents this complete guide for butchering many types of livestock or wild animals. Learn how to butcher cows, chickens, goats, hogs, deer, turkeys, rabbits, and more, with simple and easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and illustrations. Burch also provides...

Unlock Your Full Shooting Potential with Dryfire: Fundamental Shooting Techniques for Training at Home Dryfire is an indispensable guide, meticulously crafted for practical shooting competitors who are ready to push their abilities to the next level. Inside, Dryfire contains a wealth of comprehensive drills that refine technique and sharpen precision. Dryfire isn't just a manual; it's a personal coaching toolkit....

One of America's foremost experts on gunsmithing, Bryce Towsley is back again to provide even more projects for anyone interested in building, customizing, fixing, or maintaining firearms. Gunsmith Towsley offers detailed explanations and includes colour illustrations for just about every aspect of gun modification, builds, and repair. Featured tutorials include: How to customise a GLOCK handgun Build a 1911 handgun...

A thorough resource on handloading at home, Shooter's Bible Guide to Handloading provides detailed information about the history of handloading and key figures' innovations. It offers a simple explanation of hand reloading, selecting the basic tools needed, and choosing your cases, dies, primers, and powders. The book also includes step-by-step instructions for reloading firearm cartridges and how to test your...

Modern-day fly fishing, like much in life, has become exceedingly complex, with high-tech gear, a confusing array of flies and terminal tackle, accompanied by high-priced fishing guides. This book reveals that the best way to catch trout is simply, with a rod and a fly and not much else. The wisdom in this book comes from a simpler time, when...

Stag Doo by Al Lester, the master of the hunting genre, is full of rip-roaring yarns for those with a good keen sense of humour and a love for New Zealand's wild outdoors. Once described as 'Barry Crump meets Fred Dagg', 'Big Al' Lester is the modern-day master of the hunting genre. His books are for those with a good...

Barry Morton is hunting illegally on Lilybank, a large property in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. He seeks a unique trophy, a pure white bull Tahr. Upon returning to his well-concealed secret camp, he discovers a young woman bathing in the hot pool, a pool he believed was known only to members of his family. This is not all...

A sequel to Return to Lucifer Creek. Departing Lucifer Creek, Barry and Helen head for Tekapo with the intention of reporting the murder of Helen’s sister and their tramping companions to the authorities. Instead, following a confrontation on the way, they unexpectedly end up in the cells at Timaru Police Station. What’s more, they soon discover that not everyone is...

A poignant and surprising collection of essays on fishing, in which the sport becomes a way to meditate on love, grief, faith, and obsession, with contributions spanning medieval times to the present. The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a...