Father water, Mother woods essays on fishing and hunting in the North Woods
Gary Paulsen ; with illustrations by Ruth Wright Paulsen
- New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books, 1996, c1994.
- xiii, 177 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Survival in the wilderness--Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it. These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting are serious business, requiring skill, secrets, and inspiration. Luck, too--not every big one gets away.