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For A Handful of Feathers (Paperback)
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For A Handful of Feathers (Paperback)
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List price R390
Loot Price R363
Discovery Miles 3 630
You Save R27 (7%)
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A lifelong hunter and wild-game gourmet who has traveled the globe
on expeditions with world-class sportsmen, Guy de la Valdene
purchased an 800-acre farm outside Tallahassee and set out to raise
and hunt his favorite game bird, bobwhite quail. But de la Valdene
is also a naturalist at heart, and as he planted trees and divided
fields, he found that running the farm compelled him to operate as
both hunter and preservationist, predator and protector. De la
Valdene structures his reflections around a year in the life cycle
of the bobwhite quail, from one generation's birth through mating
and the raising of their young. Along the way, he gets pulled along
on some side trips: to a masterpiece of controlled burning
performed by a Vietnam veteran in a helicopter with 300 gallons of
napalm, and to his own adventures when he improvises some
dam-raising to fill his pond. For a Handful of Feathers reconciles
a passion for hunting with a deep sentiment for the wild. Learning
early on that while his work on the farm may awe his friends, he
can never impress nature, de la Valdene tries, with sensitivity and
patience, to find his, and perhaps society's, place in the natural
world. A classic that compares well with Turgenev's A Sportsman's
Notebook . . . simply and beautifully written.-The Bloomsbury
Review; For a Handful of Feathers is an American classic . . . a
book as unapologetic as it is thoughtful about blood sport . . . .
the verbal spark and pace of a fine novel.-Gray's Sporting Journal;
A gem that will appeal not only to hunters but to all readers who
love the land.-Publishers Weekly.
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