Description
Book SynopsisA definitive and eloquent book about deer hunting in Texas and the lessons it teaches about the cycles of life in nature and in a family, A Thousand Deer reaffirms Rick Bass’s stature as one of America’s finest nature writers.
Trade ReviewThe essays in
A Thousand Deer flow into one another beautifully…While most hunting stories tread familiar paths of bragging or variations on Natty Bumppo, this book goes further. Exactingly observed and powerfully written,
A Thousand Deer offers the richness of hunting to outsiders curious about such barbarian rituals and offers a voice for hunters who struggle to articulate the deep motives for walking frozen hills before dawn. This is a valuable contribution to nature writing, written with the intensity of a hunt. -- Daniel Clausen, Boise State University * Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *
Table of Contents
- My Naturalist Mother
- Records
- The Other Fort Worth Basses
- On Willow Creek
- Deer Camp
- This Year's Hunt
- The Deer Pasture
- The Silent Language
- A Texas Childhood
- Colter's Creek Buck
- Aoudads
- Mary Katherine's First Deer
- Credits
