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Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods | ||
| Author: | Gary Paulsen | ||
| ISBN: | 0440219841 | ||
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Survival in the wilderness--Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it. These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting are serious business, requiring skill, secrets, and inspiration. Luck, too--not every big one gets away. This book takes readers through the seasons, from the incredible taste of a spring fish fresh from the smokehouse, to the first sight of the first deer, to the peace of the winter days spent dreaming by the stove in a fishhouse on the ice. In Paulsen's north country, every expedition is a major one, and often hilarious. Once again Gary Paulsen demonstrates why he is one of America's most beloved writers, for he shows us fishing and hunting as pleasure, as art, as companionship, and as sources of life's deepest lessons. FROM THE PUBLISHER Survival in the wilderness—Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it. These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting are serious business, requiring skill, secrets, and inspiration. Luck, too—not every big one gets away. FROM THE CRITICS The ALAN Review - Donald R. Gallo Before there was Hatchet, before there was Canyons, before The Island, before Nightjohn, before Woodsong and all the other award-winning books, there was the boy. And there were the streams, and the rivers, and the lakes and woods in northern Minnesota to which the boy could escape. Escape the drinking and the fighting and the pain at home. This is where the stories all began. For real. With affectionate details, the man takes us to those places-those special places-and shows us how to catch fish, shoot rabbits, hunt grouse and deer and ducks. But especially fish. First come the suckers. Then the northern pike. Next, sunfish-called "bulls." Followed by suckers again. The rock-bass and bullheads and walleyes and, again, pike. There are lures-bought and made-and worms; and there are spears, bows, and arrows. There is fishing in rivers, in drainage ditches, at the dam, beneath the bridge, through the ice. Seemingly endless. But lovingly described. Like no other man can describe it.
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