Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner

Synopsis

When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find herself picking up a gun and learning to hunt. She'd been raised as a gun-fearing environmentalist and an animal lover, and though a meat-eater, she'd always abided by the principle that harming animals is wrong. But Raff McCaulou's perspective shifted when she began spending weekends fly-fishing and weekdays interviewing hunters for her articles, realizing that many of them were more thoughtful about animals and the environment than she was. So she embarked upon the project of learning to hunt from square one. From attending a Hunter Safety course designed for children to field dressing an elk and serving it for dinner, she explores the sport of hunting and all it entails, and tackles the big questions surrounding one of the most misunderstood American practices and pastimes. Not just a personal memoir, this book also explores the role of the hunter in the twenty-first century, the tension (at times artificial) between hunters and environmentalists, and new models of sustainable and ethical food procurement.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

336 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781455510641

Related ISBNs:

9781455500741

Publisher:

Grand Central Publishing

Date of Addition:

07/11/21

Copyrighted By:

Lily Raff McCaulou

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Cooking, Food and Wine, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.