An exploration of hunting today by the author of American Buffalo and the host of the Travel Channel's The Wild Within and the Sportsman Channel's show MeatEater

An exploration of humanity's oldest pursuit and of its relevance today, Steven Rinella's new book chronicles his evolving, lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten dynamic hunts, beginning when he was an aspiring mountain man at age ten and ending as a thirty-seven-year-old father in Brooklyn. Along the way, he grapples with themes such as Manifest Destiny and the vanishing frontier, the ethics of killing, and the responsibilities that human predators have to our prey. Hunting, he ultimately argues, is intimately connected with our humanity and assuming responsiblity for acquiring the meat that we eat, rather than entrusting it to proxy executioners, processors, packagers, and distributors, is one of the most respectful and ethically responsible things a carnivore can do.