The Sporting Road: Travels Across America in an Airstream Trailer--with Fly Rod, Shotgun, and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer
- ISBN-10
- 1429904194
- ISBN-13
- 9781429904193
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-10-17
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Author
- Jim Fergus
Description
More than just a "man and his dog" hunting adventure, The Sporting Road is a book about the land and man's place in it. It is also, in many ways, a book about relationships; with nature, animals, and the people with who live around us. As Rick Bass says in his introduction, Jim Fergus is a man for whom "The common denominator is not geographical, but internal; here is a man who belongs intensely to the living. And slowly, gradually -- essay by essay -- you become aware of the unsaid: the fact that he fits a diminishing time, a diminishing space, and a diminishing code of manners. That he always puts others before him; that he considers and respects his friends, his prey, his dogs, and the landscapes that engage these things."
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- 2000-10-17
- 290 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
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