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Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife or feral animals, by humans for food, recreation, or trade. The species that are hunted are referred to as game, and are usually mammals and migratory or non-migratory gamebirds.
![Black and white photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, standing next to dead elephant, holding gun, probably in Africa.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Roosevelt_safari_elephant.jpg/220px-Roosevelt_safari_elephant.jpg)
Works
[edit]- Sporting in Both Hemispheres, 1858 by J. D'Ewes IA
- Sport in Many Lands, 1877 by Henry Astbury Leveson
- "Hunting with Birds of Prey" by in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (October 1895)
- Hunting With the Eskimos, 1910 by Harry Whitney IA
- "A Game Country Without Rival in America," by Stephen R. Capps in National Geographic Magazine, January 1917
Big game hunting
[edit]- Big Game Shooting, 1894 by Clive Phillipps-Wolley
- American Big-Game Hunting, 1901 by Theodore Roosevelt IA
- Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West, 1907 by Theodore Roosevelt IA
- Big Game Hunting for Boys, North America and Asia, 1907 by John Hyde IA
- Hunting African Big Game, August 1909 by Fritz Joubert Duquesne
- In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country, c. 1910 by John Tinney McCutcheon IA
- Big Game Shooting Records, 1932 by Edgar N. Barclay IA
Deer hunting
[edit]- "Deer Hunting" in Ornithological Biography, 1831 by John James Audubon
- Deer-stalking, 1886 by Augustus Grimble IA
- Hunting, 1889 by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, and Mowbray Walter Morris, covering both fox and deer hunting with horses IA
- The Deer Family, 1902 by Theodore Roosevelt IA
Fox hunting
[edit]- Fox-Hunting Past & Present, 1908 by Richard Howard Carlisle IA
- An Introduction to Fox-Hunting, 1911 by E. S. C. Hobson IA
- "Fox-hunting," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- Hunting the Fox, 1921 by Richard Greville Verney Willoughby de Broke IA
Drag hunting
[edit]Songs
[edit]- Hunting Songs, 1876 by T. A. Griffith IA
- Hunting Songs, 1877 by Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton IA
Verse
[edit]- Hunting Song, 1808 by Walter Scott
- Hunting Song, 1913 by Paul Laurence Dunbar