Scholarly interest in hunting and wildlife protection has been spurred by the emergence of environmental history as a field of study, according to a U. of British Columbia geography professor
in his foreword. Gillespie (communications, popular culture, and film, Brock U., St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada) reads 19th century accounts of big-game hunting by British elites in North
America's western frontier as cultural texts reflecting British masculine ideals and imperialist aims. He examines these narratives as social, aesthetic, scientific, and business perspectives
on tapping the land's resources. Illustrations are drawn from such books as John Palliser's Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies (1853). Distributed by the U. of
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