Vadim acknowledged Seton as an influence before he ever visited us in NM. When a Korean publisher asked him to do a version of Seton’s Lobo, the story of a youthful Seton’s capture of a notorious cattle- killing wolf in late 19th century New Mexico, we sent background images to him in Moscow. He in …
Tag: Russia
Cherkassov from Vladimir
Vladimir Beregovoy now has copies of his translation (with a slight assist from me) of Cherkassov’s East Siberian Hunter to inscribe. I am not sure of the price–25?– but postage (for a BIG book) is only $5. Jim Cornelius at Frontier Partisans, Dan On the Rock, and Constant Commenter (and wild canid maven) Lane Batot …
Cherkassov at last!
After several years, I am happy to announce the publication of A.A.Cherkassov’s 1865 Notes of an East Siberian Hunter, translated by zoologist, eminent cynologist, and “dog in law” Vladimir Beregovoy of Virginia, with a little help from me. It is available as a large format, good- quality print on demand paperback of 439 pages, for …
Two Links
Vadim Gorbatov has his own website at last! It is in Russian but just click around– you don’t need language to appreciate a great painter. Click the second button (“Novosti”) for not only tigers battling bears but great sketches and images including ones on this Samurai falconer.You can buy his prints from Al Gates– links …
Back Again… (and Guests)
Only this time I have never left– just been ridiculously busy. To reassure– my health is the best it has been in a year, though my vigorous and always expanding exercise routine takes up a surprising amount of time, and neglecting it brings on a slide if I do it very long. Add guests to …
John Vaillant’s The Tiger
Here it is, Q- Philes– John Vaillant’s The Tiger: a True Story of Vengeance and Survival is finally out this week. It is better than good– my favorite book of the year so far, and a likely classic in my rare favorite genre, that which documents (to use a book title) “the edge of the …
Russian Art
Let this one load all the way. The thing to look at is not the second rate Gorbatov imitations (the falconry one is almost a direct ripoff), but the still life pics at the bottom. I love the Russians but sometimes I don’t know quite what to say.. HT Chas
Not- so serious links
Dr Hypercube has three great links from English Russia which you should also visit, on reindeer races, Ukrainian Amazons, and wildly implausible airplanes, some of which actually existed (see here.) The charm of the first is partially linguistic: “People bring their best deers and race, race, race. The looser deers are being eaten then, like, …
More Gorbatov
Al Gates just gave me this link to a huge gallery of Gorbatov art at his Eaglehunter site, including dogs, large mammals, and falconry. There is even a version of my “Lobo”.
Hounds
The Asian tazi gene pool continues to expand– Vladimir now has three, in addition to mine and their offspring. Puppy Urtak is somewhat related to my dogs, and is going to be huge. Here he is at only four months with the full- grown female, Adel, who is closely related to mine. Timur, a young …