Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places

Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild PlacesOver 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

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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 10/01/2016
ISBN: 9780803288164
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016
Foreword 08/25/2016