Christopher Camuto
Hunting From Home
A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains
A vivid rendering of the four seasons on a Shenandoah Valley farm and in the Virginia mountains.
Christopher Camuto has been praised for writing "with the clear-sightedness and imaginative reach—both inward and outward—of a poet" (Verlyn Klinkenborg). In Hunting from Home, Camuto takes the reader through a year of intense experiences: hunting grouse with his setter through snowbound forests in winter; wading trout streams in spring; closely observing birds and wildlife through summer; exploring the backcountry, cutting wood, and hunting deer in autumn. He takes seriously—and joyously— Thoreau's injunction to practice "the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen." Camuto writes incisively about the hunter's paradoxical love of the game he pursues; but he also hunts in the broadest sense possible, searching out and witnessing the life of the things he loves—brook trout and black bear, hawks and warblers—with the hope of sharing the pleasures and preoccupations of a "border life" lived, with deep satisfaction, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge. 4 b/w illustrations.
Christopher Camuto, author of A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge and Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains, lives near Roanoke, Virginia.
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