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Flyfishing the High Country
This book is mentioned as preceding the author's first book, "Troutbone", clarifying the timeline of his published works.
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No, second. Because you had... you had The Fly Fish and the High Countries before that.
— Episode: Ep. 092: John Gierach
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Episode: Ep. 092: John Gierach
This book is mentioned as preceding the author's first book, "Troutbone", clarifying the timeline of his published works.
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No, second. Because you had... you had The Fly Fish and the High Countries before that.
Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas
The book is mentioned as one of Zane Grey's works and a topic of discussion concerning his depth of knowledge and involvement in fishing.
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Well, I think it was Fishing Virgin Seas is the book I have at home.
— Episode: Ep. 092: John Gierach
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Episode: Ep. 092: John Gierach
The book is mentioned as one of Zane Grey's works and a topic of discussion concerning his depth of knowledge and involvement in fishing.
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Well, I think it was Fishing Virgin Seas is the book I have at home.
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman
It was described as a four-season exploration of angling, published as essays in magazines before being collected into a book. The book is structured as freestanding essays, yet weaves a broader narrative of the author's life and friendships.
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I did. At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman.
— Episode: Ep. 092: John Gierach
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Episode: Ep. 092: John Gierach
It was described as a four-season exploration of angling, published as essays in magazines before being collected into a book. The book is structured as freestanding essays, yet weaves a broader narrative of the author's life and friendships.
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I did. At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman.
It was, you know it was one of those seasons of the angler thing. I mean it was a four season thing, and I just had this idea that that would be the way to do a book, is to go through the seasons. And I wrote the chapters as essays, and I published most of them in magazines and then collected them into a book.
Japan
The Cookbook
It was described as a cookbook with pictures instructing how to cut up fish, which prompted the speaker to search for Japanese bone pickers online.
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I was looking at a Japanese cookbook that you got to read from back to front. It's just pictures of how to cut up every fish on the planet. And in there, they're always picking bones....
— Episode: Ep. 083: What The Hell's In Your Backpac...
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Episode: Ep. 083: What The Hell's In Your Backpack
It was described as a cookbook with pictures instructing how to cut up fish, which prompted the speaker to search for Japanese bone pickers online.
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I was looking at a Japanese cookbook that you got to read from back to front. It's just pictures of how to cut up every fish on the planet. And in there, they're always picking bones. And I was like, what the hell are those?
Hudson River Deception
It is a book about trapping and hunting in Canada during the 1920s, detailing tarp setups used by trappers to survive the winter. The speaker mentioned the book's description of tarp setups.
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There's a book, God, what's that river book? River, no. You know the author? No, but it's a guy in Canada. I can't remember. Hunting book? They do a lot of hunting, a lot of trapping. River of Decepti...
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Episode: Ep. 083: What The Hell's In Your Backpack
It is a book about trapping and hunting in Canada during the 1920s, detailing tarp setups used by trappers to survive the winter. The speaker mentioned the book's description of tarp setups.
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There's a book, God, what's that river book? River, no. You know the author? No, but it's a guy in Canada. I can't remember. Hunting book? They do a lot of hunting, a lot of trapping. River of Deception. I can't remember. Anyways, there's a great book where these guys, it's in the 1920s. And big fur boom going on. And they're trapping in Canada and working the rivers trapping. And they always got to get to their site because they're out in the middle of the winter. And he describes their tarp setups.
Snow Leopard
The speaker's novella, "The Snow Leopard's Tale", was mentioned. The title was initially conceived differently, but was ultimately changed to "Tale" instead of "Tail".
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The Snow Leopard's Tale, yeah.
— Episode: Ep. 077: African Hunting
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Episode: Ep. 077: African Hunting
The speaker's novella, "The Snow Leopard's Tale", was mentioned. The title was initially conceived differently, but was ultimately changed to "Tale" instead of "Tail".
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The Snow Leopard's Tale, yeah.
Not T-A-I-L. No, T-A-L-E.
Augusts in Africa
Safaris into the Twilight
The speaker discussed his book, mentioning that it explores various controversial topics related to hunting in Africa and that it was not just about telling cool hunting stories.
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I didn't approach the book just wanting to hear a cool hunting story. I approached the book because I'm like a guy who is like just, okay, like I have an inner struggle.
— Episode: Ep. 077: African Hunting
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Episode: Ep. 077: African Hunting
The speaker discussed his book, mentioning that it explores various controversial topics related to hunting in Africa and that it was not just about telling cool hunting stories.
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I didn't approach the book just wanting to hear a cool hunting story. I approached the book because I'm like a guy who is like just, okay, like I have an inner struggle.
Black Sheep
It was mentioned in relation to sheep hunting and the challenges of spotting sheep against the dark shale.
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is that Rick French made that movie? Yeah, yeah. Black Shale, White Sheep.
— Episode: Ep. 076: The Impossible Hunt
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Episode: Ep. 076: The Impossible Hunt
It was mentioned in relation to sheep hunting and the challenges of spotting sheep against the dark shale.
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is that Rick French made that movie? Yeah, yeah. Black Shale, White Sheep.
How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
Dr. Beth Shapiro discussed her book, mentioning that the subtitle could have been about the reasons for and against cloning a mammoth, or about how cloning a mammoth might be possible given limited ethics, a billion dollars, and a mammoth.
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I think the subtitle is actually How to Clone a Mammoth, The Science of De-Extinction or something, but I have been suggested several better subtitles.
— Episode: Ep. 075: Cloning Mammoths
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Episode: Ep. 075: Cloning Mammoths
Dr. Beth Shapiro discussed her book, mentioning that the subtitle could have been about the reasons for and against cloning a mammoth, or about how cloning a mammoth might be possible given limited ethics, a billion dollars, and a mammoth.
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I think the subtitle is actually How to Clone a Mammoth, The Science of De-Extinction or something, but I have been suggested several better subtitles.
My favorite one was How Cloning a Mammoth Might Be. No, I'm trying to think of what the best one was that was suggested by a friend of mine. It was like if you have limited ethics, a billion dollars and a mammoth.
The Border Trilogy
All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)
The podcast mentioned Cormac McCarthy's *Border Trilogy*, specifically *The Crossing*, which tells the story of a young man who captures a Mexican wolf but cannot bring himself to kill it, ultimately deciding to take it to a new location.
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You haven't read that? How could you-
— Episode: Ep. 074: Gray Wolves
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Episode: Ep. 074: Gray Wolves
The podcast mentioned Cormac McCarthy's *Border Trilogy*, specifically *The Crossing*, which tells the story of a young man who captures a Mexican wolf but cannot bring himself to kill it, ultimately deciding to take it to a new location.
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You haven't read that? How could you-
You need to read Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.
The Crossing, All the Pretty Horses.
The Crossing is a kid who grows up on the New Mexico, Mexico border. They're losing some cattle to a wolf. His dad says, catch the wolf and kill it. And he studies up and through trials and tribulations catches the wolf. And can't kill it. And he decides what he needs to do is bring it down to New Mexico and let it go where it won't be bothering anything anymore. Except for all the cattle in Mexico. Wolf dies. The wolf dies anyways, but it goes it, but it-
So anyhow, there you are, Mexican Grey Wolf. Billy and Boyd. You need to read The Crossing.
Trailing the giant panda,
This book, written by Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., detailed their 1920s expedition to China, where they obtained the first panda specimen for Western science.
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So they were like their old man in that they were specimen hunters.
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Episode: Ep. 071: The Buttery Tones of Karl Malcolm
This book, written by Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., detailed their 1920s expedition to China, where they obtained the first panda specimen for Western science.
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So they were like their old man in that they were specimen hunters.
And they came back to the US and in addition to all the other skins they had, they had the first panda delivered to Western Science. And if anybody's interested in seeing this panda, it is on display in Chicago at the Field Museum right now as we speak.
So I got a copy of this book after scrounging libraries all over the country to try to find a copy of this book.
Kay Nielsen
East of the Sun / West of the Moon
This book recounts an earlier expedition to Asia undertaken by Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. It was mentioned as an example of their past adventures.
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Kermit and Ted, they had done a previous Asiatic expedition in the 1920s and they published a book from that expedition as well. The title of that book is East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
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Episode: Ep. 071: The Buttery Tones of Karl Malcolm
This book recounts an earlier expedition to Asia undertaken by Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. It was mentioned as an example of their past adventures.
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Kermit and Ted, they had done a previous Asiatic expedition in the 1920s and they published a book from that expedition as well. The title of that book is East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
Keepers of the game
Indian-animal relationships and the fur trade
It explored the impact of the beaver trade on Native populations and offered a unique perspective on why Indigenous peoples participated in the fur trade, suggesting spiritual or religious motivations.
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He does a good job in there with the impacts of the beaver trade on native populations, where here you have an ant, like the bison or buffalo looms so large in the mythology of the tribes.
— Episode: Ep. 069: Dr. Dan Flores
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Episode: Ep. 069: Dr. Dan Flores
It explored the impact of the beaver trade on Native populations and offered a unique perspective on why Indigenous peoples participated in the fur trade, suggesting spiritual or religious motivations.
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He does a good job in there with the impacts of the beaver trade on native populations, where here you have an ant, like the bison or buffalo looms so large in the mythology of the tribes.
It'd be like the guy who says, the guy who's been stomping on morels down in his cot and would grow up his whole life and never thought about them. One day some guy knocks on his door and he's like dying. He's just like, really?
They're everywhere, but people really want these things.
And his argument was a really intriguing one because he kind of argued against some of the things I was just explaining. That the fur trade had an economic basis.
He argued that it was based on... it was Indians participated in it for spiritual or religious reasons rather than economic reasons.
Twilight of the Mammoths
Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments (Hardcover)) (Hardback) - Common
It was mentioned as a recommended book to learn more about the Pleistocene extinctions and the debate surrounding the role of human influence versus climate change in the demise of mammoths and other megafauna. The author was a major advocate for the "Pleistocene overkill" hypothesis.
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Paul Martin, in his great book, really the last book he wrote, and the book that if people want to read about this I think I would encourage them to read, is called The Twilight of the Mammoth...
— Episode: Ep. 069: Dr. Dan Flores
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Episode: Ep. 069: Dr. Dan Flores
It was mentioned as a recommended book to learn more about the Pleistocene extinctions and the debate surrounding the role of human influence versus climate change in the demise of mammoths and other megafauna. The author was a major advocate for the "Pleistocene overkill" hypothesis.
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Paul Martin, in his great book, really the last book he wrote, and the book that if people want to read about this I think I would encourage them to read, is called The Twilight of the Mammoths.
On Food and Cooking
The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The podcast mentioned this book while discussing why asparagus makes urine smell. It was referenced as a source of information on the topic.
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He talks at length about why asparagus makes your piss smell
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The podcast mentioned this book while discussing why asparagus makes urine smell. It was referenced as a source of information on the topic.
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He talks at length about why asparagus makes your piss smell
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game
Volume 1
The book was mentioned as a place where pictures of the speaker's llamas could be found. It was described as a guidebook.
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And you'll see that that's our guidebook
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The book was mentioned as a place where pictures of the speaker's llamas could be found. It was described as a guidebook.
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And you'll see that that's our guidebook
My Early Life
A Roving Commission
It was read by Rorke Denver during his senior year of college; he described it as a book where "every line is gold", praising Churchill's writing style and adventurous life.
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I read that it's like yeah but like just that kind of sort of pedigree man nothing like it yeah like there's no yeah there's definitely like no flies on McCain you know but there's a lot like yeah it'...
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It was read by Rorke Denver during his senior year of college; he described it as a book where "every line is gold", praising Churchill's writing style and adventurous life.
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I read that it's like yeah but like just that kind of sort of pedigree man nothing like it yeah like there's no yeah there's definitely like no flies on McCain you know but there's a lot like yeah it's just like you used to hear about that or with him I mean he's like exemplary even outside of that like no one has his background it's pretty phenomenal nor his vision I mean he he predicted so many I mean he predicted he could see the things taking place and in Europe that led to World War II he he you know the iron curtain is his phrase he saw that the Soviets the Soviets would you know draw that curtain and even though that they were allies in that fight that they were gonna be the next big power he was a piece of work yeah but go back to your earlier thought like how far down that road would have you even gotten because he had like terrible money management loved uh you're highly you like to pull a cork love to pull a cork probably stepping out on the old misses quite often it's precisely what I mean I feel like in today's climate a person like that will not get to the front office or get any close to it because they'll get nuked before that but he was the man for the time.
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game
Volume 1
The MeatEater podcast's guidebook series was mentioned, with the speaker noting that they wrote 700 pages on hunting. A photo in the guidebook, depicting a pregnant woman hunting a mountain goat, was also discussed.
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Yeah, the guidebook series.
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The MeatEater podcast's guidebook series was mentioned, with the speaker noting that they wrote 700 pages on hunting. A photo in the guidebook, depicting a pregnant woman hunting a mountain goat, was also discussed.
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Yeah, the guidebook series.
In our big game guidebook, my favorite picture in our big game guidebook is my brother's, his wife drew a mountain goat tag.
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