A Long Walk into a Brisk Wind: Takeaways from a Lifetime Pursuing Upland Game Birds

This book follows the arc of an upland hunter's life from childhood into old age. Each chapter emphasizes the larger life lessons that hunting teaches a person as they learn and then practice the sport. A large portion of the book centers on the way upland hunting integrates wing shooting and dog work into a coherent whole that, when it works well, can approach art. The book consists a Preface, 34 stories organized into seven sections (Growing Up, Shotguns, Reloading and the Range, Dogs, Bi...