The BAREBOW! DEER BOOK (The BAREBOW! BOOK — An Archer's Fair-Chase Taking of North America's Big-Game 29 1)
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The BAREBOW! DEER BOOK (The BAREBOW! BOOK — An Archer's Fair-Chase Taking of North America's Big-Game 29 1)
Republished here in e-Book format, this is Book One in a seven-volume series, presenting all the stories, art work, and other material drawn from the five, different, deer-species chapters in the original hardcover, coffee-table book that came out in September of 2008. That book, BAREBOW!, which won five national awards in 2010, contains 104 short stories of true adventure and misadventure, chronicling the personal odyssey of author Dennis Dunn, as he pursued and eventually accomplished something that no one had ever done before: namely, the harvesting — with bow and arrow only (barebow) — of all 29 huntable big-game species on the North American continent. "Barebow" means that the archer uses no yardage sight-pins or other aiming devices attached to the riser of the bow above the arrow rest. In other words, purely instinctive shooting is the only system in play. To many, this constitutes the ultimate challenge in fair-chase hunting.
This first volume of the new, digital, seven-book series is comprised of all 18 stories (plus accompanying art work) found in the original five DEER chapters of BAREBOW! Those chapters are titled, "MULE DEER", "COLUMBIA BLACKTAIL DEER", "WHITETAIL DEER", "SITKA BLACKTAIL DEER", and "COUES' WHITETAIL DEER". In addition, you will find here the same comprehensive, taxonomic and biological information which made the parent book an encyclopedic reference work on all North American big game.
The remaining six volumes in the series will be offered over the summer of 2012 in digital form, as well, and the avid hunter or nature lover is encouraged to be on the lookout for their appearance. All the books are designed to appeal to the hunter and non-hunter alike. For that reason, they contain no "hero photos" of the author with any of his trophies at the kill-site. That omission, however, is more than compensated for by the remarkable and abundant wildlife art of wildlife artists Hayden and Dallen Lambson, a highly-revered father/son team from Pocatello, Idaho.
Volume Three, The BAREBOW! BEAR BOOK, will present 23 stories involving the author's attempts to take a large male specimen of each of the four N. A. bear species: the Black Bear, the Polar Bear, the Grizzly Bear, and the Alaska Brown Bear (sometimes called the Kodiak).
If you enjoy being an armchair adventurer, with literature that will never put you to sleep, nor expose you personally to the hazards of setting foot in the wilderness yourself, then the seven forthcoming volumes in this exciting e-Book series should definitely be on your "bucket list"!