A SHEEP HUNTER'S DIARY: THIRTY YEARS OF MOUNTAIN HUNTING FOR IBEX AND SHEEP. By Ronald S. Gabriel.

2014 2nd (1st trade) edition. Large 8vo (156 x 236mm). Ppxviii,413. Colour photographs and maps, bibliographical references. Yellow cloth, spine titled in dark blue.

"Ron Gabriel is in ultra rare company, for he is one of only a few dozen people to have taken a Super Slam of sheep." The author recounts three decades of his hunting career, pursuing wild sheep all over the world. Chapters include: Dall sheep in Alaska set the tone, 1977; Soviet venture for Tur, 1984; Nepal - the trek for Bharal, 1985; Mongolia's Gobi Argali, 1987; Afghan Urials in Pakistan, 1987; Mexican Desert Bighorn, 1988; Egypt has ibex, 1988; To New Zealand for Himalayan Tahr, 1988; Ovis amon in the High Altai of Mongolia; Snow Sheep of Eastern Siberia, 1991; Kamchatka Bighorn, Jim Conklin, a hunter's hunter, 1992; The Pamirs, a Marco Polo diary, 1992; Fannin Sheep of the Yukon, 1995; Western Caucasian Tur, and a letter to Matthew, 1997; Putorana Snow Sheep, 2001; Karaganda Argali of Kazakhstan, 2001; A wild goat chase in the Scottish Highlands.