By Bruce L. Smith
ISBN-10: 0803288166
ISBN-13: 9780803288164
Over the prior 4 a long time, Bruce L. Smith has labored with such a lot big-game species in the various American West’s so much breathtaking and tough landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers subscribe to Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and flora and fauna biologist, as he pulls us into the sector of studying and discovery throughout wasteland parts of western Montana, the nationwide Elk shelter in Jackson gap, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest.
starting from funny to harrowing, Smith’s essays recount shooting child elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after using out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears in the course of his learn, plus quirky and edifying searching stories. all through his adventures, the magnetism and threat of untamed nature are ever current, reminding us that our fascination with wildness frequently stems from its unpredictability.
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