Book Details
240
March 7, 2017
Width: 5 in
Height: 7 in
[Masterman’s] stories weave a rich and warmly colored tapestry of memories of landscape, place, people, and creatures both domestic and wild. [They] are personal but reach into the universal in their treatment of life’s joys, sorrows, wins, and losses, from the reminder to really live and confront challenges that was brought to him by death of two friends, to the especially tender story of how times spent fly fishing with his daughter grew into warm memories that bless them both now that she is grown. Like naturalist John Muir before him, Masterman has found that a good life demands beauty as well as bread, and he has found in nature the source of both.
The era of the classic outdoors writer isn't past — it lives on in Bruce Masterman. His work combines authentically-lived experience and a naturalist's sensitive observation with the kind of easy prose style that marks a real writer's craft. From marsh to mountaintop, with rod, gun or binoculars, at all seasons — Masterman has been there and now he takes the rest of us with him into the living wild places of our West.
Having a sense of place goes far beyond your address, demographic and the spot where you draw a pay cheque. The natural world teaches us that just like other animals we too have natural habitats, and a life rich in experience is one deeply rooted in the land, the waters, the seasons, and the rhythms of other animals. Bruce Masterman has his finger on those rhythms, that pulse, and his essays freshen the wild spirit within each of us.