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2017 Great Northwest Book Festival in the Nature Writing Category
2017 WWA Spur Awards, Finalist in Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction
Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest.
Ranging from humorous to harrowing, Smith's essays recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after riding out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears during his research, plus quirky and edifying hunting tales. Throughout his adventures, the magnetism and danger of wild nature are ever present, reminding us that our fascination with wildness often stems from its unpredictability.
Contents
Introduction1. Snowbound2. Big Turtle3. The Way West4. The Deer Hunt5. The Elk Hunt6. Woodpeckers to Goats7. The Bear and the Tree8. Gravity9. Lightning10. Collecting11. Old Garbage Gut12. In the Timber13. Baby Elk14. The Circle15. Empty Forests16. Four Decades LaterAfterwordAcknowledgments
