The Sporting Road: Travels Across America in an Airstream Trailer--with Fly Rod Shotgun and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer

More than just a man and his dog hunting adventure The Sporting Road is a book about the land and mans place in it. It is also in many ways a book about relationships; with nature animals and the people with who live around us. As Rick Bass says in his introduction Jim Fergus is a man for whom The common denominator is not geographical but internal; here is a man who belongs intensely to the living. And slowly gradually --essay by essay--you become aware of the unsaid: the fact that he fits a diminishing time a diminishing space and a diminishing code of manners. That he always puts others before him; that he considers and respects his friends his prey his dogs and the landscapes that engage these things.