Good writing is . . . well, good writing. But if I want to read about Jim Corbett's exploits, I'd much rather read Corbett on Corbett rather than Capstick (or anyone else) on Corbett, even if Capstick was a better writer. George Bird Evans, in one of his anthologies of stories by other writers, used the categories "writers who hunted" and "hunters who wrote". Corbett was a hunter who wrote, Capstick a writer who hunted. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter category, which would also include Hemingway--among others.

Kirk, I could certainly sell more articles if I wrote about deer hunting. But since I don't hunt deer, I don't write deer hunting articles.