Summary
A year on a quail farm in France.
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"Beautifully conceived and written, valuable for its insights into quail behavior and its thoughtfull address of hunting ethics, a new classic for the sportsman's canon."
-- Kirkus
"The book is about many things-a classic that compares well with Turgenev's 'A Sportsman's Notebook' and Ortega y Gasset's 'Meditations on Hunting'.
-- Bloomsbury Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.25 x 7.25 inches
Weight: 0.45 pounds
Publisher's Notes
A lifelong hunter and wild-game gourmet who has traveled the globe on expeditions with world-class sportsmen, Guy de la Valdene purchases an 800-acre farm outside Tallahassee and sets out to raise and hunt his favorite gamebird, bobwhite quail. But de la Valdene is at heart also a naturalist, and as he plants trees and divides fields, he finds that running the farm compels him to operate at once as both hunter and preservationist, both predator and protector. With sensitivity and patience, de la Valdene has written a book about his, and perhaps society's, place in the natural world.
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