Robert F. Jones
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- For the politician, see Robert Franklin Jones.
Robert F. Jones was a novelist and an outdoor writer for Sports Illustrated and Field & Stream. Many of his novels contain fantastic and/or surrealistic elements, causing some critics to label his work slipstream.
He died December 18, 2002, of natural causes in Bennington, VT at age 68. [1]
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Fiction
- Blood Sport (1974): Novel about a father and son fishing trip up the mythical Hassayampa river, which runs from upstate New York to China, and ancient times, and their encounter with legendary outlaw "Ratnose."
- The Diamond Bogo (1978): The story of an African hunting expedition for a large cape buffalo with a giant diamond embedded in its horns, and involving the discovery of a surviving lost race colony of homo erectus.
- Slade's Glacier (1981)
- Blood Tide (1990): A nautical adventure tale of a father and daughter setting out to wreck vengeance on two different men who had each betrayed them.
- Tie My Bones To Her Back (AKA The Buffalo Runners) (1996): Western
- Deadville (1999): Western
- The Run to Gitche Gumee
[edit] Non-Fiction
- Gone to the Dogs Life With My Canine Companions
- Dancers in the Sunset Sky
- The Fishing Doctor: the Essential Tackle Box Companion
- The Hunter In My Heart A Sportsman's Salmagundi
- African Twilight: The Story of a Hunter
- Upland Passage: A Field Dog's Education
- Jake: A Labrador Puppy at Work and Play
