Author: Rick Bass
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292743602
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass’s family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—“the Deer Pasture”—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness and wilderness, about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and particularly about how important it is for children to live in the natural world. The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass’s boyhood in the suburbs of Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in the little oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to his commitment to providing his children in Montana the same opportunity—a life afield—that his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably this brings him back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own passage from young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his commitment to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to the last wild places.
A Thousand Deer
Author: Rick Bass
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292743602
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass’s family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—“the Deer Pasture”—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness and wilderness, about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and particularly about how important it is for children to live in the natural world. The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass’s boyhood in the suburbs of Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in the little oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to his commitment to providing his children in Montana the same opportunity—a life afield—that his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably this brings him back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own passage from young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his commitment to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to the last wild places.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292743602
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass’s family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—“the Deer Pasture”—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness and wilderness, about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and particularly about how important it is for children to live in the natural world. The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass’s boyhood in the suburbs of Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in the little oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to his commitment to providing his children in Montana the same opportunity—a life afield—that his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably this brings him back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own passage from young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his commitment to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to the last wild places.
The Naturalist’s Library. Mammalia. Deer, Antelopes, Camels, &c.
Author: William Jardine
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368741500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368741500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals: Deer, antelopes, camels, &c
Author: Sir William Jardine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ruminants
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ruminants
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals, ...: Deer, antelopes, camels, &c
Author: William Jardine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ruminants
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ruminants
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Deer, Antilopes, Camels
Author: W. Jardine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Mountain of Twenty Thousand Deer
Author: Edward Alphonso Goldman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kaibab Plateau (Ariz. and Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kaibab Plateau (Ariz. and Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Buck Fever
Author: Mike Sajna
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822954362
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Every fall close to one million hunters enter Pennsylvania's forests and mountains in quest of the white-tailed deer. Some are seeking sport and companionship; others are stocking their larders for winter; many are conservationists who regard hunting as the most humane way of reducing overpopulated deer herds. They all face the increasing activism of animal rights advocates who are opposed to hunting in principle and who frequently picket and harass hunters. This controversial subject is explored in depth by Mike Sajna, the outdoors columnist for Pittsburgh Magazine and a twenty-year veteran of Pennsylvania's "pumpkin army," the orange-clad throng that invades the woods every season. To explain the ethos and traditions of hunting he takes the reader to a typical deer camp in Warren County, in the rugged terrain of the Allegheny High Plateau. Starting with the trek north from their homes around Pittsburgh, he captures the sights and sounds, thoughts and feelings of three generations of hunters. With humor, affection, and insight he recounts the hunting lore, the camaraderie, the physical testing that make deer camp a unique experience.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822954362
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Every fall close to one million hunters enter Pennsylvania's forests and mountains in quest of the white-tailed deer. Some are seeking sport and companionship; others are stocking their larders for winter; many are conservationists who regard hunting as the most humane way of reducing overpopulated deer herds. They all face the increasing activism of animal rights advocates who are opposed to hunting in principle and who frequently picket and harass hunters. This controversial subject is explored in depth by Mike Sajna, the outdoors columnist for Pittsburgh Magazine and a twenty-year veteran of Pennsylvania's "pumpkin army," the orange-clad throng that invades the woods every season. To explain the ethos and traditions of hunting he takes the reader to a typical deer camp in Warren County, in the rugged terrain of the Allegheny High Plateau. Starting with the trek north from their homes around Pittsburgh, he captures the sights and sounds, thoughts and feelings of three generations of hunters. With humor, affection, and insight he recounts the hunting lore, the camaraderie, the physical testing that make deer camp a unique experience.
Adventures of Two Youths in the Open Polar Sea
Author: Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Voyage of the "Vivian" to the North Pole and Beyond
Author: Thomas Wayne Kent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Adventures of two youths in the open polar sea. Ship and crew are fictitious scenes of the voyage and incidents and adventures described based on fact.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Adventures of two youths in the open polar sea. Ship and crew are fictitious scenes of the voyage and incidents and adventures described based on fact.
Deer Wars
Author: Bob Frye
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046945
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The story of deer management in Pennsylvania is as complex as it is controversial. From the disappearance of deer in Pennsylvania forests at the beginning of the twentieth century to the population explosion that occurred in the latter half of the century, the balance between herd size and a healthy forest has long been a difficult one. In Deer Wars, Bob Frye examines this controversy and the effect that herd management has had on all of the citizens of Pennsylvania; farmers managing deer invasions and property rights, hunters dealing with changing herd densities and ever-complex restrictions, state agencies juggling the rights of hunters with the needs of commercial interests, all with stakes in the success and health of the deer herd. Now with deer harvests decreasing, Chronic Wasting Disease becoming a potential threat, and forests showing serious signs of trouble, the need for compromise from all of the players is essential, but is it possible? This well-researched and engrossing book explores that question.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046945
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The story of deer management in Pennsylvania is as complex as it is controversial. From the disappearance of deer in Pennsylvania forests at the beginning of the twentieth century to the population explosion that occurred in the latter half of the century, the balance between herd size and a healthy forest has long been a difficult one. In Deer Wars, Bob Frye examines this controversy and the effect that herd management has had on all of the citizens of Pennsylvania; farmers managing deer invasions and property rights, hunters dealing with changing herd densities and ever-complex restrictions, state agencies juggling the rights of hunters with the needs of commercial interests, all with stakes in the success and health of the deer herd. Now with deer harvests decreasing, Chronic Wasting Disease becoming a potential threat, and forests showing serious signs of trouble, the need for compromise from all of the players is essential, but is it possible? This well-researched and engrossing book explores that question.