
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
2017 Great Northwest Book Festival in the Nature Writing Category
2017 WWA Spur Awards, Finalist in Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pullsus into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest. Ranging from humorous to harrowing, Smith's essays recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after riding out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears during his research, plus quirky and edifying hunting tales. Throughout his adventures, the magnetism and danger of wild nature are ever present, reminding us that our fascination with wildness often stems from its unpredictability.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Snowbound
- 2. Big Turtle
- 3. The Way West
- 4. The Deer Hunt
- 5. The Elk Hunt
- 6. Woodpeckers to Goats
- 7. The Bear and the Tree
- 8. Gravity
- 9. Lightning
- 10. Collecting
- 11. Old Garbage Gut
- 12. In the Timber
- 13. Baby Elk
- 14. The Circle
- 15. Empty Forests
- 16. Four Decades Later
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About Bruce L. Smith
- Series List
- Other Works by Bruce L. Smith