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A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country

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By (author): Rick Bass

In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Basss family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Countrythe Deer Pasturefor more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has taught him about our need for wildness and wilderness, about cycles in nature and in the life of a family, and particularly about how important it is for children to live in the natural world.

The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Basss boyhood in the suburbs of Houston, where he searched for anything rank or fecund in the little oxbow swamps and pockets of woods along Buffalo Bayou, to his commitment to providing his children in Montana the same opportunitya life afieldthat his parents gave him in Texas. Inevitably this brings him back to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has experienced there. Bass lyrically describes his own passage from young manhood, when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his commitment to the hunt evolving into a commitment to family and to the last wild places.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 313g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2012
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780292756281

About Rick Bass

Rick Bass is the author of twenty-seven books of fiction and nonfiction including The Wild Marsh Why I Came West and The Lives of Rocks. Several of his books have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award as well as the New York Times. and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. He's been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and his short stories and essays have received O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories Best American Travel Writing and Best Spiritual Writing.

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