Camps and Trails

A Canada jay eyes a hunter’s sandwich, then silently glides closer. Soon three wild birds are taking lunch from his hand, deep in a forest fifteen miles from the nearest human dwelling.

In the northern woods, on an October day beneath Crescent Mountain, a hunter and his companion Bige set out along separate trails in search of game. When the appointed meeting place is empty, the narrator must choose his own route back to camp—quietly picking through ravines, swamps and tangled brush, with only his compass and the forest for company. A deer pauses over beech nuts; somewhere ahead, an uncanny rumble draws him onward. In Henry Abbott’s intimate, observant account, the wilderness is both a hunting ground and a world full of surprises. What else is waiting along the trail?

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