Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner
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品牌: Lily Raff McCaulou
基本信息出版社:Grand Central Publishing (2012年6月12日)精装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:1455500747条形码:9781455500741ASIN:1455500747商品描述内容简介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.媒体推荐"Eloquent debut memoir about a young woman's transformation from a New York City urbanite into small-town Oregon hunter with a conscience. . . A powerful story in which the author shapes a narrative of personal growth into a symbol of modern humanity's alienation from the natural world." (KirkusReviews)
"Lily Raff McCaulou has a good heart and a curious soul, and her story of learning to hunt touches every emotion in the spectrum.Call of the Mildis powerful, well-told, and a great pleasure to read." (Ian Frazier, author ofTravels in SiberiaandGreat Plains)
"Lily Raff McCaulou has done the hard intellectual work of actually thinking about why she's hunting and what it means. A fascinating work, and a way into a debate often marked by obstinant close-mindedness on every side." (Bill McKibben, author ofEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet)
"Call of the Mildtackles a fascinating and complex subject: the ethics, experience, ecological implications, and, ultimately, importance of American hunting. Lily Raff McCaulou is such good company-articulate, thoughtful, funny, intelligent, fair-minded, and warm-hearted-that I would have stayed with her for many more pages, and then I would have happily gone hunting with her, something I had never once thought of doing. This is a deeply good book in so many ways." (Kate Christensen, author ofThe Epicure's LamentandThe Astral)
"Call of the Mildputs into words the same kind of transformation from urban consumer to hunter-gatherer that many of us "adult-onset" hunters went through: The excitement, the doubt -- the fear -- and ultimately the satisfaction we derive from finding our food the way our ancestors did. Raff McCaulou knows as well as anyone that a meal won by hard work will always taste better than one bought in a store." (Hank Shaw, author ofHunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast)
"In telling the story of how she learned to hunt, Lily Raff McCaulou shares the essential missing elements in the way we eat today: gratitude, joy, and responsibility.Call of the Mildis a compelling and honest work, a truly worthwhile read for anyone who wants to shift their relationship to the food on their plate." (Alana Chernila, author ofThe Homemade Pantry)
