Ramblings: Tales From Three Hemispheres

Hardcover, 240 pages.This beautiful 240-page tabletop volume contains 189 lush black-and-white and duotone photographs, paintings, and drawings that richly document the author's contemplative and intimately composed accounts of his hunting and fishing journeys, from Patagonia to Alaska—along with the guns, fly rods, bows and friends with whom he shared the adventures. The whisper of water on weathering stone as it courses cold around your waders, and the feel of streambed gravel beneath good felt soles. The resonant patter of rain on the brim of a trusty old hat, and the sweet, pungent aroma of November wafting through the woods on a cool autumn eve. Your first springtime walk on hillside grass following a flat, frozen interlude in hospital and rehab, and the summertime taste of fresh-picked tomatoes on your otherwise wintering tongue. A cottonwood storm in early June. The scent of elk and horses. SUCH IS THE essence of life. This is, after all, why we fish and hunt, and then con