A Hunter's Heart
Subtitle: Honest Essays on Blood Sport
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780805044232
Subjects: Psychological aspects; Hunting Sports; Sports & Recreation; Nature/Ecology; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Hunting; Moral and ethical aspects; Moral and religious aspects
First sentence: None of this was quite enough, all together, to keep a family of seven in meat, all the time, through the frozen Appalachian winters.
Description: The editor, himself a committed hunter, has assembled a distinguished group of writers, including Edward Abbey, Rick Bass, Jimmy Carter, A.B. Guthrie Jr., Jim Harrison, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, and Terry Tempest Williams. Expressing a sentiment most of these writers share, Richard K. Nelson writes in the book's introduction: "Hunting sharpens my awareness that I am an animal, not separate from my fellow creatures but twisted together with them in one great.

Braidwork of life. Hunting brings me into the wild and brings the wild into me."