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  • A Bulletproof Ground Sloth: On the Hunt in Brazil

    or, How I Lost My Mind, Was Dyed Blue, and Accidentally Learned How to Smuggle Weapons

    by Pat Spain ...
    “This is the scene everyone will remember,” is how the director described the bullet-ant ceremony moments before Pat Spain took his place in the line of initiates. If online views, memes, family parties, and talk-show mentions are the measure, he wasn't wrong. The Tucandeira ceremony of the Sateré-Mawé is known as the most extreme ritual in the world, and Pat agrees with that assessment ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia

    or, How I Went to the Bottom of the Ocean, and a Giant Fish Accidentally got me Drunk

    by Pat Spain ...
    Pat Spain is used to doing things that he acknowledges are not normal — such as lying in a pit of 200,000 snakes or having a pygmy village take excessive interest in his bathroom habits. /Sea Serpents: On the Hunt in British Columbia/ chronicles the coolest thing this host of multiple wildlife-adventure TV series has done yet — traveling 1,000 feet underwater in a three-man sub. Follow Spain, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 200,000 Snakes: On the Hunt in Manitoba

    or, How I Found a New Beginning at the Bottom of a Giant Pit of Snakes

    by Pat Spain ...
    Pat Spain was living the life he had always dreamed of. He had just finished filming his first National Geographic TV series Beast Hunter, put in an offer on his first house with his girlfriend, was in the best physical shape he'd ever been in, had paid off the massive debt he'd incurred filming a web-based wildlife series and was getting to hang out with his TV and punk-rock idols like Harry ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Living Dinosaur: On the Hunt in West Africa

    or, How I Avoided Prison but was Outsmarted by a Snail

    by Pat Spain ...
    On the Hunt in West Africa finds Bostonian Pat Spain, an inexperienced but enthusiastic traveler and wildlife biologist, on the first shoot of his new National Geographic TV series in Cameroon, the Congo, and the Central African Republic. He was told it would be his “trial by fire” for the world of wildlife TV, and soon finds that to be literally true after their decrepit pick-up truck catches ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mongolian Death Worm: On the Hunt in the Gobi Desert

    Or, How I Found the Worst Bathroom on Earth and Learned to Love Cheese Flavored Vodka

    by Pat Spain ...
    Pat Spain is not a very good dancer. Nor is he a person used to wearing bikini briefs, or wrestling in front of hundreds of nomads and an international TV audience. He is certainly not a person you would expect to find wearing said bikini briefs while dancing in front of said audience, but here we are: On the Hunt in the Gobi Desert. Pat and a National Geographic film crew are searching for the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Little Bigfoot: On the Hunt in Sumatra

    or, How I Learned There Are Some Things That Really Do Not Taste Like Chicken

    by Pat Spain ...
    In the course of Pat Spain's time filming wildlife-adventure TV series, he's gotten pretty used to being uncomfortable. There've been rabid raccoon attacks, days spent in the baking equatorial African sun, and consumption of many revolting local delicacies like fermented mare's milk. And then there was Sumatra. On the Hunt in Sumatra details the two weeks Pat spent soaking wet with a National ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • 101 Amazing Facts About Animals

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