"A kind of homemade book-imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (a. . .
It\'s a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev\'s A Sportsman\'s Notebook." -Edward Hoagland, New York Times Book Review "His subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . "A kind of homemade book-imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize