Meat eater : adventures from the life of an American hunter / Steven Rinella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rinella, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rinella, Steven.

Hunters--United States--Biography.

Hunters.

Hunting.

History.

United States.

Hunting--United States--History.

Hunting stories, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2012]

Summary:

Steven Rinella grew up in rural Michigan, the son of a hunter who taught his sons to love the natural world the way he did. As a child, Rinella devoured stories of the American wilderness. He shot his first squirrel at eight and his first deer at thirteen. He chose the colleges he went to by their proximity to good hunting ground, and he experimented with living solely off wild meat. As an adult, he feeds his family from the food he hunts. Meat Eater chronicles Rinella's lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten hunts in the remotest corners of North America. Through each story, he grapples with themes such as the role of the hunter in shaping America, the vanishing frontier, the ethics of killing, the allure of hunting trophies, the responsibilities that human predators have to their prey, and the disappearance of the hunter himself as Americans lose their connection with the way their food finds its way to their tables.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Standing ground

Stirring the limbs

Tasting notes: squirrel

Tangle stake

Tasting notes: beaver

Low and to the right

Tasting notes: heart

The otter

Tasting notes: jerky

Communion

Tasting notes: black bear

Playing with food

Tasting notes: salmon

Freeze-up

Tasting notes: deer

The head on my shelf

Tasting notes: camp meat

Killing proper

Tasting notes: mountain lion

The remains.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780385529815

0385529813

OCLC:

769425447