A hunter's camp-fires

• Main Author: House, Edward John, 1879-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Harper & Brothers 1909
• Subjects: Big-game hunting; Caribou hunting > Newfoundland and Labrador; Greenland; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies; walrus*
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/9708

House writes about the big-game hunting expeditions he has undertaken in Canada, Newfoundland, Greenland, the western United States and East Africa. The book is extensively illustrated with the author's own photographs. Includes a description of a Newfoundland Caribou hunt (p. 80-[98]). Part I. Big game hunting in northern lands: Moose-calling in New Brunswick; Walrus-shooting in Whale Sound; A hunt in the Laurentides; In the interior of Greenland; A Newfoundland caribou-hunt. -- Part II. East African experiences: A day on the veldt; A giraffe-hunt in the Loldeiga Hills; An African elephant-hunt; Rhinoceros-hunting; Sport on the Guaso Maru -- Part III. In the wake of the pack-train: Elk and antelope hunting in Wyoming; Sport in the Gold Range; A Colorado bear-hunt; Bighorn-hunting in the Cascades; Grizzley and caribou hunting in British Columbia; A day in the Idaho Rockies