Hunting the Whole Way Home
The prose in this collection of hunting essays from the writer and poet Sydney Lea is as lyrical  and colorful as a fall morning in the New England woods. Like other writers who have tried to convey the  beauty and knowledge that can be gained through blood sport in an age of dogmatic NRA rhetoric and  shrill animal-rights advocacy (Tom McGuane comes to mind), Lea wrestles with the central paradox of  20th-century hunting: stalking and killing wild animals can bring one closer to a mostly forgotten elemental  earth. Lea conveys a respect for his quarry, the land they both inhabit, and man's place in a living chain in  which the actions of any single link can be felt throughout. One need not be a hunter to enjoy these  meditations on landscape and humankind's place within the natural community.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.