Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781455500741)

When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find herself picking up a gun and learning to hunt. She'd been raised as a gun-fearing environmentalist and an animal lover, and though a meat-eater, she'd always abided by the principle that harming animals is wrong. But Raff McCaulou's perspective shifted when she began spending weekends fly-fishing and weekdays interviewing hunters for her articles, realizing that many of them were more thoughtful about animals and the environment than she was.

So she embarked upon the project of learning to hunt from square one. From attending a Hunter Safety course designed for children to field dressing an elk and serving it for dinner, she explores the sport of hunting and all it entails, and tackles the big questions surrounding one of the most misunderstood American practices and pastimes. Not just a personal memoir, this book also explores the role of the hunter in the twenty-first century, the tension (at times artificial) between hunters and environmentalists, and new models of sustainable and ethical food procurement.

Author: Lily Raff McCaulou
ISBN-10: 1455500747
ISBN-13: 9781455500741
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2012 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2012