Should the tent be burning like that?
Subtitle: a professional amateur's guide to the outdoors
By: Bill Heavey
Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780802127105
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Humor; Outdoor life; Hunting; Fishing
Other titles: Professional amateur's guide to the outdoors
Description: "From a celebrated writer on the outdoors, hilarious stories about the joys and pitfalls of hunting, fishing, family, and adventure" -- Amazon.com.

"For more than twenty years, Bill Heavey--- a three-time National Magazine Award finalist--- has staked a claim as one of America's best writers.  In feature stories and his Field & Stream column, 'A Sportsman's Life,' as well as other publications, he has taken readers across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens to love hunting and fishing.  [This book] gathers together a wide range of Heavey's best work.  He nearly drowns attempting to fish the pond inside the cloverleaf off an Interstate Highway four miles from the White House.  He rents and crashes a forty-four-foot houseboat on a river in Florida.  On a manic weeklong deer archery hunt in Ohio, he finds it necessary to practice by shooting arrows into his motel room's phonebook (the blunt penetrates all the way to page 358, "KITCHEN CABINET--REFACING & REFINISHING").  Accompanying a shaggy steelhead fanatic--- Mikey, who has no job or fixed address but owns four boats--- on a thousand-mile odyssey up and down the California coast in search of fishable water, he comes to see Mikey as a purer soul than almost anyone he has ever met.  Whatever the subject, Heavey's tales are odes to the notion that enthusiasm is more important than skill, and a testament to the enduring power of the natural world.  Whether he's hunting mule deer in Montana, draining cash on an overpriced pistol, or ruminating on the joys and agonies of outdoor gear, Heavey always entertains and enlightens with honesty and wit."--Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Chasing the chrome; title: Adventures of a deer bum; title: Angler's paradise; title: No pain, no elk; title: The South's top gun; title: Fifty shades of green; title: The making of a stand hunter; title: My gun guru; title: Castaway in deer paradise; title: The odd couple; title: Deer, lies, and videotape; title: Father knows less; title: Some home truths; title: In the face of failure; title: The stalk; title: The stand; title: If hunters ruled the world; title: The slam man; title: Meat matters; title: Not the same; title: Boys should be boys; title: Hands off my stuff; title: Cross-country skiing among the Cree; title: Car talk; title: Going to pieces; title: The rope report; title: Inward bound; title: The bear essentials; title: True grit; title: Task master; title: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Eye; title: Man overboard; title: The sky's the limit; title: Turkeys: life on the square; title: Grand guns; title: Gee whiz; title: Dyeing to connect - Buddy trip; title: Crash course; title: Bass land; title: Point well taken; title: Turf war; title: Wild ride; title: Home water; title: Fishing on the edge; title: Gear good!; title: Bow crazy; title: Feet first; title: The backcountry cure; title: How to be a winner; title: Flats fever; title: Faced with an anti; title: The lake effect; title: Out of orbit; title: The smallmouth man; title: Tackle underworld; title: What the horse saw; title: Bull's eye; title: Hoofing it for caribou; title: Wishful thinking.