Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Outdoor lives series |
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Outdoor lives.
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Contents |
Snowbound -- Big turtle -- The way west -- The deer hunt -- The elk hunt -- Woodpeckers to goats -- The bear and the tree -- Gravity -- Lightning -- Collecting -- Old garbage gut -- In the timber -- Baby elk -- The circle -- Empty forests -- Four decades later |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
Subject |
Smith, Bruce L., 1948-
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SUBJECT |
Smith, Bruce L., 1948- fast |
Subject |
Wildlife conservation -- Fieldwork -- United States -- Anecdotes
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Outdoor life -- United States -- Anecdotes
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Outdoor life
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2016029455 |
ISBN |
9780803295339 |
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0803295332 |
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9780803295346 |
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0803295340 |
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9780803295353 |
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0803295359 |
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