THE HELLPIG HUNT: A Hunting Adventure in the Wild Wetlands at the Mouth of the
Mississippi River by Middle-Aged Lunatics Who Refuse to Grow Up
By Humberto Fontova
M. Evans (2003)
"Had Dante seen it," wrote Frances Trollope of the place, "he might have drawn images of another hell from it's horrors!"
We spent our Christmas vacation in its very gizzard - voluntarily. This book follows the cast of my last book - Helldiver's Rodeo - on a three-day, hunting-fishing-boozing trip to the wild wetlands at the mouth of the Mississippi River 100 miles below New Orleans.
And indeed in "Upper Hell," the Italian poet tells us, "The lustful, gluttonous and avaricious" are "blown by strong winds, stung by insects and put to useless labor."
Dante described both us and our trip pretty accurately. But he left out: chomped by alligators, menaced by poisonous serpents, pursued by brutal game wardens, blinded and stranded by hellacious fog, stomped by 400-pound wild boars, chased by a cloud of deadly poison gas, and enticed by exotic dancers.
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