Here we have a portfolio of short stories spanning over seventy-five years of the author’s outdoor experiences, beginning with a fishing trip with his maternal grandfather at the age of seven years, ending with him catching his biggest trout, aged eighty-one.
All the big stories of the author’s experiences have been told in past books,* this is a potpourri of the small stories that combine to paint a comprehensive and fascinating portrait of this exceptionally successful hunter and fisherman.
We read not only his experience as a recreational hunter and fisherman, but also his years as a professional hunting guide and the clients he guided.
For twenty-two years, the author lived on a remote high country station where Mother Nature confronted in the form of floods, gales, snow storms and wild fires. He and his wife Susan raised their children in this challenging location.
Many city folks, who have never encountered the multitude of outdoor experiences of this skilful author, may read this book and consider some chapters are fiction. Not so.
