Heart of the Hunter by Edison Marshall … (1956) My favourite book of all time. It tells of his life as a hunter (started with ducks and went on to caribou and grizzly bears, brown bears, Africa with a legendary old white hunter, then eventually went to Indo China to hunt tigers and finally to India to hunt tigers .. more that once and multiple tigers ..
Near the end he went back to ducks as he felt that he could never again duplicate the adventures …
He was a famous novelist back in the day …
I keep rereading it every few years ..