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Making Game: An Essay On Woodcock

Guy de la Valdene

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The woodcock, a reclusive game bird native to Europe and North America, has been hunted, celebrated and eaten since Roman times, though most American hunters are still ignorant of its existence. Vald ne's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand. "In 1983 Valdene, a journalist and enthusiastic bird hunter, traveled around the country studying the woodcock and joining the efforts of scientists and bird lovers to band the game bird and document its loss of habitat. Summing up what he learned about this curious bird and its habits, he deplores the rapid dwindling of the woodcock population in the U.S., due in part to hunters' killing two million of them each year. Valdene makes no excuses, however, for his own delight in hunting and eating the vulnerable bird. This contradiction remains at the heart of his book in which he oddly blends natural history with accounts of his hunting." - Publisher's Weekly

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Clark City Press

Release: June 06, 1985

ISBN: 0944439144

ISBN 13: 9780944439142

Making Game: An Essay On Woodcock

Guy de la Valdene

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The woodcock, a reclusive game bird native to Europe and North America, has been hunted, celebrated and eaten since Roman times, though most American hunters are still ignorant of its existence. Vald ne's writing is at once evocative and biting, gracefully balancing the obsessions of a naturalist, sportsman, and gourmand. "In 1983 Valdene, a journalist and enthusiastic bird hunter, traveled around the country studying the woodcock and joining the efforts of scientists and bird lovers to band the game bird and document its loss of habitat. Summing up what he learned about this curious bird and its habits, he deplores the rapid dwindling of the woodcock population in the U.S., due in part to hunters' killing two million of them each year. Valdene makes no excuses, however, for his own delight in hunting and eating the vulnerable bird. This contradiction remains at the heart of his book in which he oddly blends natural history with accounts of his hunting." - Publisher's Weekly

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Clark City Press

Release: June 06, 1985

ISBN: 0944439144

ISBN 13: 9780944439142

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