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Call of the Mild
Lily Raff McCaulou
其他書名
Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner
出版Grand Central Publishing, 2012-06-12
主題Nature / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsSports & Recreation / HuntingSocial Science / Agriculture & FoodScience / Life Sciences / Ecology
ISBN14555106459781455510641
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-VwkA4fUhFcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋From an outsider perspective learning about a sometimes misunderstood cultural pastime, a beautifully written and contrarian narrative about what it means to hunt in America today.

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.