Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places

2017 Great Northwest Book Festival in the Nature Writing Category
2017 WWA Spur Awards, Finalist in Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest.

Ranging from humorous to harrowing, Smith's essays recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after riding out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears during his research, plus quirky and edifying hunting tales. Throughout his adventures, the magnetism and danger of wild nature are ever present, reminding us that our fascination with wildness often stems from its unpredictability.

Author: Bruce L. Smith
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 10/01/2016
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780803288164
ISBN10: 0803288166
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Environmentalists & Naturalists
- Nature | Essays
- Nature | Animals | Wildlife

About the Author
Bruce L. Smith retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2004 after a thirty-year career as a wildlife manager and scientist. He was named Wyoming's Conservationist of the Year in 1997 and received the John and Frank Craighead Wildlife Conservation Award in 2005. His latest book, Life on the Rocks: A Portrait of the American Mountain Goat, won two National Outdoor Book Awards.