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    Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoors
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    Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoors

    Written by Bill Heavey

    Narrated by Jeff Harding

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    Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal-two entities rarely seen in the same sentence-like it. For more than twenty years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has taken readers across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens to love hunting and fishing.

    This new collection gathers together a wide range of his best work-tales that are odes to the notion that enthusiasm is more important than skill and testaments to the enduring power of the natural world. Whether he's hunting mule deer in Montana, draining cash on an overpriced pistol, or ruminating on the joys and agonies of outdoor gear, Heavey always entertains and enlightens with honesty and wit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781520088259

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    • 4/5
      Lots of funI seldom see Field & Stream these days, but in my youth it was a family favorite and universally available in waiting rooms in our part of the country. I always enjoyed the stories and learned from them. But that was then and this is now and my life outdoors is not involved with hunting (actually I don't care to hunt) or fishing (which I love, but seldom do anymore), so it was a treat to get this book to review.If you can look at a hunting and fishing book without the top blowing off your skull, then you will probably enjoy this one a lot and even indulge in some out-loud laughs. Mr. Heavey has an enviable life getting paid to slog through mud and snow and be eaten alive by mosquitoes, ticks, and leeches. (Actually there aren't any leeches here, probably because Mr. Heavey has learned to keep them mostly out of his stories.) He writes about his life and adventures in a clean, straight-forward style that is so rare these days.I received a review copy of "Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoors" by Bill Heavey (Grove Atlantic) through NetGalley.com.
    • 4/5
      A collection of the author's articles written for Field and Stream magazine. If you love hunting and fishing, you will really enjoy this book. Heavey is a very entertaining and funny writer.
    • 5/5
      The humor and the reality!! The author puts it in terms that all hunters and fishers can relate to..
    • 5/5
      Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoorsby Bill HeaveyMy father taught me how to shoot a rifle when I was young and before I raised the weapon I was told that it was never to be pointed at anything living. I kept that lesson close and always wondered about people who hunt for sport. Bill Heavey has successfully, humorously and intelligently explained why hunting is more than a challenging sport. He can make you understand that “an hour means nothing; the innocent rustle of leaves is a matter of life or death; and a change in the wind can bring panic or euphoria.”I probably didn’t need the detail on flies and fishing lures but wow, really an $85,000.00 rifle?! Heavey tells stories that are infused with homilies that just make you understand and feel better. There is Tony, who owns a tackle store, and has a purpose and a connection to his business “It’s about running things the way his father and grandfather had, not just profitably but well, aiming higher than the bottom line. It is about honor.” And Heavey gets it. He understands on the day that he kills a deer as an older hunter the sport was becoming more complicated for him introspectively. There is always a personal price to be paid. He has the ability to describe lunatic situations with great alacrity, self-deprecatory wit and sense of self. He can be humble, and wrong-footed but always an avid and eager hunter and fisherman. He describes how in his hands “a fly line becomes a physical example of Obsessional Defiant Disorder - negative, disobedient, and hostile.” We are taken into his closest relationships and friendships and made to understand that this is a man who cherishes those who pierce his armor. He admits to too much time alone and gives credit to those who make him remember that he is “straddling the edge between the sublime and the ridiculous, that that was exactly” where “he belonged”These are a great bunch of stories and I am so glad I invested the time to get to know more about Bill Heavey and his years of outdoor sporting activities.