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By Rick Bass

ISBN-10: 0292737955

ISBN-13: 9780292737952

ISBN-10: 0292756283

ISBN-13: 9780292756281

In November, numerous households throughout Texas head out for the once a year deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as might be no different cultural adventure within the nation. Rick Bass's relatives has again to an analogous hardscrabble piece of land within the Hill Country—"the Deer Pasture"—for greater than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture back in reminiscence and tales, tallying up what looking there has taught him approximately our desire for wildness and desolate tract, approximately cycles in nature and within the lifetime of a kinfolk, and especially approximately how very important it truly is for kids to dwell within the traditional world.

The arc of A Thousand Deer spans from Bass's boyhood within the suburbs of Houston, the place he looked for whatever rank or fecund within the little oxbow swamps and wallet of woods alongside Buffalo Bayou, to his dedication to offering his teenagers in Montana an analogous opportunity—a existence afield—that his mom and dad gave him in Texas. necessarily this brings him again to the Deer Pasture and the passing of seasons and generations he has skilled there. Bass lyrically describes his personal passage from younger manhood, whilst the urge to seek used to be whatever primal, to mature maturity and the waning of the urge to take an animal, his dedication to the search evolving right into a dedication to kinfolk and to the final wild places.

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