I was predisposed to not wanting to like this book. I mean, come on, a guy that finds a buffalo skull and travels to Oxford to find out more and pulls a winning lottery to hunt a wild buffalo.... boring. But no! I gave this book to my son (seventeen years) to read and he loved it!The book is very...
This book is part natural history, part hunting adventure. The author won a lottery for a limited-draw permit to hunt Bison in Alaska. He had always been fascinated by these animals, and with luck and determination he was provided the chance to hunt one. Throughout the book, his quest for a bi...
Rinella is a solid writer, and he interjects education along with his stories from the hunt with great literary fluency.The problem I had with the book was I wasn't sure what the purpose was. I get that it's a collection of essays telling stories of various hunts, but given Rinella's intellect an...