You're Not Lost If You Can Still See the Truck

By Bill Heavey

Book Overview

In two decades at Field & Stream , the nation's biggest outdoor magazine, Bill Heavey has become America's everyman outdoorsman. Why? Because he believes that enthusiasm trumps skill. When he forgets his hat on a freezing winter hunt, he improvises, cutting open the juice-stained plush golden retriever puppy his daughter left in the car and using it as headgear. Trying to impress a lady, he flips his canoe and loses everything in the boat. Heavey takes you along with him as he nearly freezes to death in the 30-below cold of Alaska, and he also survives a divorce, plans deer hunts around his duties as a single dad, and defies a back doctor who tells him his tree-stand days may be coming to an end. Throughout, he is alive to both the ridiculousness and poignancy of life. Collecting more than sixty of Heavey's best stories from Field & Stream , the Washington Post , and the Washingtonian , this far-ranging and enlightening volume traces a life lived outdoors through the good, the bad, and the downright hilarious.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802124321
• ISBN13: 9780802124326
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"