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Longbow: A Hunting Life - Softcover

Campbell, Jay

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Synopsis

Longbow tells the wild adventures of Jay and Karen Campbell, who chase big game with the longbow in Australia, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. Jay Campbell weaves their complicated life and deadly encounters with big rivers and big animals through these stories, while still showing us the joy is in the journey. E. Donnall Thomas Jr. says Longbow is "sure-footed prose," Allen Jones calls it "damn fine writing," and Gene Wensel says "Campbell writes vividly."

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About the Author

Jay Campbell is an outdoor writer and photographer who publishes in a wide variety of outdoor magazines, including Grays Sporting Journal, Sports Afield, Bowhunter, and Traditional Bowhunter. He has been hunting with the longbow since 1961. Jay is also a practicing attorney, and has been a professional musician, police officer, paramedic, physician's assistant and firefighter. He has directed organ procurement and transplant organizations throughout the U.S. since 1989. A cancer survivior, he graduated Duke University (Magna Cum Laude) and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Law School (With Honors). Jay's wife Karen is a third-degree black belt in Shotokon, and is also a longbow hunter, photographer and fly fisher. She is the only woman known to have taken a water buffalo with a longbow. Jay and Karen have 7 children between them, and split their time in Florida between their trawler, Largo, and a home on Tampa Bay.

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