Stories from Afield
eBook - ePub

Stories from Afield

Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Stories from Afield

Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places

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

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Snowbound
  9. 2. Big Turtle
  10. 3. The Way West
  11. 4. The Deer Hunt
  12. 5. The Elk Hunt
  13. 6. Woodpeckers to Goats
  14. 7. The Bear and the Tree
  15. 8. Gravity
  16. 9. Lightning
  17. 10. Collecting
  18. 11. Old Garbage Gut
  19. 12. In the Timber
  20. 13. Baby Elk
  21. 14. The Circle
  22. 15. Empty Forests
  23. 16. Four Decades Later
  24. Afterword
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. About Bruce L. Smith
  27. Series List
  28. Other Works by Bruce L. Smith