Wingbeats and Heartbeats: Essays on Game Birds, Gun Dogs, and Days Afield ISBN: 9780299294731 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Wisconsin Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Sports History; Sports History; Science Technology and Mathematics;
Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild places where, at the end of the day, the companionship of faithful gun dogs and good friends matters more than a bulging game bag. In this sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant collection of essays, Dave Books celebrates a time-honored connection to the land and the hard-earned hunting rewards of an outdoor life. Through these essays, readers tag along on adventures in the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the fields of Iowa and North Dakota, the prairies of eastern Montana and Nebraska, the mountains of western Montana and Idaho, and the deserts of Arizona. Books also writes of the game birds that hunters pursue and admire: grouse, quail, woodcock, doves, chukars, Hungarian partridge, and waterfowl. A heartfelt tribute to the freedom and magic of the hunt, Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a book that has much to say about work and fun, success and failure, and the sights, sounds, and smells of a day afield.
Dave Books is an award-winning writer and former editor of Montana Outdoors . He has followed his gun dogs through forests, fields, and marshes across the Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest for close to forty years. His stories have appeared in Pheasants Forever , Quail Forever , Ducks Unlimited , Sporting Classics , Gun Dog , and The Upland Almanac .
