Hunting from home : a year afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains / Christopher Camuto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camuto, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting--Virginia.

Hunting.

Natural history--Virginia.

Natural history.

Virginia.

Hunting--Blue Ridge Mountains.

Natural history--Blue Ridge Mountains.

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]

Summary:

Christopher Camuto has been praised for writing "with the clear-sightedness and imaginative reach -- both inward and outward -- of a poet" (Verlyn Klinkenborg). In Hunting from Home, Camuto takes the reader through a year of intense experiences: hunting grouse with his setter through snowbound forests in winter; wading trout streams in spring; closely observing birds and wildlifer through summer; exploring the backcountry, chopping wood, and hunting deer in autumn. Writing in a tradition that reaches back to Ralph Waldo Emerson, he takes seriously -- and joyously -- Henry David Thoreau's injunction to practice "the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen."

Camuto writes incisively about the hunter's paradoxical love of the game he pursues; but he also hunts in the broadest sense possible, searching out and witnessing the life of the things he loves -- brook trout and black bear, hawks and warblers -- with the hope of sharing the pleasures and preoccupations of a "border life" lived, with deep satisfaction, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Hunting from Home completes a trilogy on the southern Appalachians. Camuto's first book, A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge, was called "a series of deeply moving essays on an American region by an angler with an eye for detail and a poet's way with the language... Reminds one of Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, even Thoreau" (Virginia Quarterly Review). His second, Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains, received a strong citation in Orion magazine: "Not since Barry Lopez welded landscape and imagination together in Arctic Dreams has a writer so ambitiously attempted to elevate local culture and landscape to universal understanding and insight." Hunting from Home is the culmination of a long and thoughtful journey through the rich natural landscape of the southern Appalachians.

Contents:

Solitary in Winter 27

Second Growth 52

Caught by the Way 82

Early Wood 105

Bend of a River 133

Karst 164

Late Wood 193

Expecting to Be Surprised 218

Archer's Paradox 242

Blood Trail 274

Working Past Dark 306.

ISBN:

0393049159

OCLC:

50731127