The Outlaw Gunner is the colorful story of market gunning in both its legal and illegal phases, particularly as it was practiced in the great Chesapeake Bay, the Outer Banks, and the tidewater regions of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. In more than 150 of the most unusual and rare photographs from the author's collection, the men with their guns, boats, and traps are shown in action. The market-gunning paraphernalia looks strange and fearful-and well it might, for it was devastatingly efficient and deadly. He describes baiting practices, gunning with tollers, trapping, gunning lights, punt guns, pipe guns, the sinkbox-the whole bag of tricks the outlaws used. This is a fascinating account of a period and of practices long gone. Throughout the unspoken "good ole days" feeling, and the nostalgia, runs a strong between-the-lines plea for conservation in our time. The appeal, placed in this setting, is hard to ignore.

This is a book of short stories detailing death defying occurrences experienced by the author while hunting the most dangerous game of Africa. These various close calls occurred in different African countries during 40 years of safaris. These stories are reinacted so the reader can experience the drama as if actually present in each situation. The stories are told on the humorous side, yet keeping the focus on the real and tense moments as they happened. Each year experienced people are killed hunting dangerous game in Africa, and many more are seriously injured, including longtime professional hunters. Most "average" hunters are just too afraid and too scared to risk their lives hunting really dangerous game up close. These stories probably will not help their apprehensiveness.