Hunting the Whole Way Home by Sydney Lea - 1994

Trade Paperback. University Press of New England 1994. Clean Text, No Water Damage, Strong Binding. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

UPNE. paperback. Like New. 5x0x8. A thoughtful meditation on the central paradox of 20th-century hunting: stalking and killing wild animals can bring one closer to a mostly forgotten elemental earth. Emerson described the hunter as "commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present." The autobiographical essays in this elegiac collection convey that sense of living power, for Sydney Lea goes far beyond colorful accounts of tramping through Vermont woods following a gun dog's bell or a buck's trail. Hunting the Whole Way Home is a search for a personal philosophy or, as Robert Frost put it, a union of avocation and vocation. Lea explores the connections between his love for nature and his passion for writing.As Lea describes a world of grouse and Canada geese and trout and deer, he defends the hunt as primal and rejuvinative. His rationale for hunting is simple: "When I say I love the wild animals in a given ecosystem, I begin by acknowledging the plain… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.