Bøger af Harlan Flick

As the heat of summer turns to cool nights and crisp, clear mornings, when the sumac shrubs turn red, the adventures begin. These stories of sportsmen and sportswomen portray the euphoria of successful hunts, and the crushing frustration of missed shots and trophy fish that got away. They are about the generations of men and women who lived and died, their families, their faithful and trusting dogs that they loved, and the magnificent creatures of nature that they spent their lifetimes pursuing.

The sequel to Coins In A Half-Filled Jar... Big River, Run Long introduces you to misfits, characters, language and the fabric of a small river town on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. These are humorous and poignant stories of a large family struggling to make ends meet while living in one of the most picturesque landscapes in America.

What was it like to grow up in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a large family nestled in a tiny village on the banks of the Great River? Surrounded by breath-taking natural beauty and striking poverty in one of the least populated and poorest counties in the state, a family struggles to make ends meet while creating their own entertainment through fishing, trapping, and hunting along the hills, backwaters and sloughs of the mighty Mississippi River.

If you could step back in time thousands of years to the Stone Age, would you do it? If you could journey to one of the most remote and isolated geographic regions in the world, could you bring yourself to make such a trip? Come join the 1980 expedition as six intrepid travelers journey to visit the head hunting tribesmen of Irian Jaya where pigs are traded for wives, where self mutilation is expected, and ritual wars are fought to appease the ghosts of the dead. Come join us in the land where Michael Rockefeller died. Welcome to the Baliem Valley, land of the Dani tribes.