New PDF release: Wingbeats and Heartbeats: Essays on Game Birds, Gun Dogs,

By Dave Books,Christopher Smith

Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild locations the place, on the finish of the day, the companionship of devoted gun canines and strong associates issues greater than a bulging video game bag.

during this occasionally funny and occasionally poignant selection of essays, Dave Books celebrates a conventional connection to the land and the well-merited looking rewards of an out of doors lifestyles. via those essays, readers tag alongside on adventures within the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the fields of Iowa and North Dakota, the prairies of japanese Montana and Nebraska, the mountains of western Montana and Idaho, and the deserts of Arizona. Books additionally writes of the sport birds that hunters pursue and respect: grouse, quail, woodcock, doves, chukars, Hungarian partridge, and waterfowl.

A heartfelt tribute to the liberty and magic of the search, Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a publication that has a lot to assert approximately paintings and enjoyable, good fortune and failure, and the attractions, sounds, and scents of an afternoon afield.

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