A Man Made of Elk: Stories, Advice, and Campfire Philosophy from a Lifetime of Traditional Bowhunting -- David Petersen, Paperback Politics / Current Events you can't help but wish

you can't help but wish you'd been invited to that picnic or long lunch in the shade of silvery olive trees

and the temptation to silence

At a moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever

in the wake of a tragic miscarve

Will the holiday magic fizzle

A Man Made of Elk: Stories, Advice, and Campfire Philosophy from a Lifetime of Traditional Bowhunting -- David Petersen, Paperback Politics / Current Events you can't help but wishFrom the Foreword by Don Thomas: "Like all of the few 'outdoor' books that truly deserve to endure, A Man Made of Elk is, well different. That's logical enough, for the same can be said of its author. A former Marine pilot and current backwoods intellectual, idealist, iconoclast, and, yes, hunter, Dave Petersen defies categorization as adroitly as his terrific prose. I know deer hunters, bear hunters, and sheep hunters, but I don't know anyone else