BigWorldAndSmallWorld Blog

A former 3M executive Erwin Brown wrote a new book called “Hunting the world” which will be published in October. The book will be hard-cover 300+ pages covering adventures on five continents over the last 70 years and 130 pictures. The story of connecting with Mr. Brown is a story on its own. The day Mr. Brown came to speak at my business networking group was the day I spoke at a local Rotary club about China. Therefore I did not meet him. However I was very interested to find out what he talked about and I e-mailed him to introduce myself. We made connections right away on common interest of travel and particularly my interest in Asia. Mr. Brown is kind enough to send me an entire chapter of the book on “Transcapspian Urial Sheep in Turkmenistan”. Here is a snippet of the beginning of the chapter:
I am often asked which one of my adventures has been the
most interesting and exciting. It is difficult to answer, as every
journey has suspenseful moments and interesting twists. Life-
threatening experiences aren’t much fun when they’re happening, but
make fascinating stories in retrospect. Sheep hunting is plain hard
work, and there isn’t much smiling and laughing during the process;
but the satisfaction of accomplishment when the sheep is down is hard
to beat.
I had collected the five different species of North
American wild sheep, the European Mouflon, the Barbary Sheep of
Spain, and the Gobi Argali in Mongolia, but had yet to experience a
hunt for one of the Urial sheep specie of Southern Asia. Of all the
species of Urials, the Transcaspian Urial is the most handsome. The
main range of the Transcaspian Urial is southern Turkmenistan and
northern Iran. A hunt in Iran is out of the question, so I arranged a
trip to Turkmenistan for February 1990. Bob Kern of The Hunting
Consortium made all the arrangements.
……
While I am waiting eagerly to see the chapter of “Gobi Argali Sheep in Mongolia”, I can’t wait to share the good news of the book with you.