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Wingbeats and Heartbeats: Essays on Game Birds, Gun Dogs, and Days Afield de Dave Books

Wingbeats and Heartbeats: Essays on Game Birds, Gun Dogs, and Days Afield

Autor Dave Books Ilustrat de Christopher Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 feb 2014
Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild places where, at the end of the day, the companionship of faithful gun dogs and good friends matters more than a bulging game bag.
            In this sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant collection of essays, Dave Books celebrates a time-honored connection to the land and the hard-earned hunting rewards of an outdoor life. Through these essays, readers tag along on adventures in the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the fields of Iowa and North Dakota, the prairies of eastern Montana and Nebraska, the mountains of western Montana and Idaho, and the deserts of Arizona. Books also writes of the game birds that hunters pursue and admire: grouse, quail, woodcock, doves, chukars, Hungarian partridge, and waterfowl.
            A heartfelt tribute to the freedom and magic of the hunt, Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a book that has much to say about work and fun, success and failure, and the sights, sounds, and smells of a day afield.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299294700
ISBN-10: 0299294706
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: 10 drawings
Dimensiuni: 140 x 184 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

"Dave Books writes with the spare, honest beauty of the northern Great Plains, where he has spent much of the past forty hunting seasons chasing pheasants, sharptails, Huns, and other upland species. Reading his entertaining and informative stories will make you want to grab a shotgun, whistle up your dog, and head out the door."—Tom Dickson, editor of Montana Outdoors

"Dave Books has spent a long and happy lifetime hunting the high plains of Montana and other Western and Midwestern haunts—and it shows in his new book, seasoned with his wit, humor, and wistfulness for the hunter, hunted, and the outdoors."—Mark Herwig, editor of Pheasants Forever Journal

“Books writes with flair, is irrepressibly good natured and infuses quiet humor in much of his material.”—Sporting Classics Magazine 

“The strength of his book . . . is that you can dip into each envy-inspiring essay and come out of it with a great appreciation for the sport.”— Big Sky Journal

“Books has mastered the art of the well-paced bird-hunting essay. He has a gift for quickly establishing a sense of place, whether he’s working up an arroyo in the Sonoran Desert or crossing cropland in northern Montana’s Milk River country. . . . His fine prose embraces terrain and cover, the character of dogs and the qualities of good guns, the natural history of the game he pursues and the temperament of his companions.”—Gray’s Sporting Journal

Notă biografică

Dave Books is an award-winning writer and former editor of Montana Outdoors. He has followed his gun dogs through forests, fields, and marshes across the Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest for close to forty years. His stories have appeared in Pheasants Forever, Quail Forever, Ducks Unlimited, Sporting Classics, Gun Dog, and The Upland Almanac.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments                 
Introduction               
 
Part I: Upland Tales
Autumn Magic                                   
Completing the Picture                                  
The Unassuming Hun                        
Snowbelly                              
Chukars Don't Come Easy                            
Sonoran Safari                        
Edgar's Bird                            
Jailhouse Blues                                  
Hunting the Sagebrush Sasquatch                              
Judge Owen Denny Day                               
An Ammunition Maker's Best Friend                                   
Don't Forget the Bear Spray                          
A Lonely, Wild Bird                          
Gentleman Bob                                  
 
Part II: Helpers in the Hunt
A Dog's Life                           
Dogs May Be Smarter than We Think                                  
Bird Dogs and Buzztails                                
Strange Happenings Afield                            
Second Chances                                 
Rite of Passage                                   
 
Part III: People and Places
A Nose for Valley Quail                                
Longtails and Liars                             
Taking One for the Team                               
Conjugal Bliss                        
Country Folks and City Slickers                               
The Hi-Line                           
Sundown Roosters

Descriere

Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild places where, at the end of the day, the companionship of faithful gun dogs and good friends matters more than a bulging game bag.
            In this sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant collection of essays, Dave Books celebrates a time-honored connection to the land and the hard-earned hunting rewards of an outdoor life. Through these essays, readers tag along on adventures in the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the fields of Iowa and North Dakota, the prairies of eastern Montana and Nebraska, the mountains of western Montana and Idaho, and the deserts of Arizona. Books also writes of the game birds that hunters pursue and admire: grouse, quail, woodcock, doves, chukars, Hungarian partridge, and waterfowl.
            A heartfelt tribute to the freedom and magic of the hunt, Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a book that has much to say about work and fun, success and failure, and the sights, sounds, and smells of a day afield.