From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and fishing in Alaska.
Accompanied by photographs, each story reflects the author’s three-decade relationship with the wildest places left in North America as he interacts with brown bears, wolves, wilderness, commercial fishing, and the nearly forgotten act of harvesting food from the wild. From hilarious tales of his nieces outfishing him to reflective ruminations on the human connection to nature, Bjorn captures the liveliness that comes from living so close to the Southeast Alaska wilds.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: Blacktails and Brown Bears
Chapter 2: Sooty Obsession
Chapter 3: The First Deer
Chapter 4: My Best Trophy
Chapter 5: Fish Terrors
Chapter 6: Mountain of Memories
Chapter 7: Return of the Prodigal Fisherman
Chapter 8: Meat Hunter’s Creed
Chapter 9: Never Cry Halibut
Chapter 10: Fishematics
Chapter 11: High Country Blacktails of Admiralty
Chapter 12: Dear Nutrition.gov, Please Sponsor My Alaskan Diet Plan
Chapter 13: Goat Obsession
Chapter 14: Forty Mile Caribou
Chapter 15: A Bloody Business but a Good Life
Chapter 16: A Good Weight to Carry
Chapter 17: Fishiction
Chapter 18: Monarch
Chapter 19: Dear Patagonia: Please Hire Me as a Fashion Designer
Chapter 20: The Return of the Prodigal Fisherman
Chapter 21: Adak
Chapter 22: The Constant Fishing Syndrome
Chapter 23: Deerslayer
Chapter 24: A Few Hours of Pain for a Winter of Good Eats
Chapter 25: Bird Dog
Chapter 26: The Fish That Refused to Get Away
Chapter 27: From Forest to Freezer
Chapter 28: The Wolf and the Fawn
Chapter 29: The Trails We Follow
Chapter 30: In the Time of Ptarmigan
Chapter 31: Of Relationships and Freezers
Chapter 32: Caribou Spoons
Chapter 33: The Caribou of the Brooks Range
Chapter 34: Dear National Geographic, Please Produce My Reality Show Idea
Chapter 35: Yakobi Island and Cross Sound
Chapter 36: Sheep Country
Chapter 37: Grizzly Country
Chapter 38: Fishlove
Chapter 39: Sisu
Om författaren
Southeast Alaska native Bjorn Dihle is a writer, commercial fisherman, teacher, and wilderness guide. You can find his work in Alaska Magazine, Sierra, Earth Island Journal, Adventure Kayak, Juneau Empire, Hunt Alaska Magazine, FIsh Alaska Magazine, Alaska Sporting Journal, and North of Ordinary. This is the follow-up to his first book, Haunted Inside Passage.