Confessions of an Eco-Redneck

by Chapple, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780738205038
• ISBN10: 0738205036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-03
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Longing for the great outdoors? From America's West to the heart of Africa, in Confessions of an Eco-Redneck Steve Chapple will take you with him on some of his more exotic adventures: TV Hunting in Old Montana. Fly-Fishing the Zambezi. Frolicking in Dinosaur Season. Into the turf of the Killer Cats. And who else would dare to ask Do Fish Have Orgasms? (and if So, What Do They Sound Like?). In this long-awaited collection of the best of his shorter nature, sporting, and travel writing, Chapple raises up his voice as a proud member of an underrated, though less-than-endangered species of sporting environmentalist: the eco-redneck (a term he coined).

Author Biography

Stephen Chapple is the author of eight books and two screenplays. He is a contributing editor of the San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine and of Sports Afield. He lives in Livingston, Montana.

Table of Contents

Introduction	15	(6)
Eco-Rednecks	21	(6)
Cheeky Youth --- The Mother's Day Caddis Hatch	27	(8)
The Bambi Syndrome	35	(10)
Fly-Fishing the Zambezi	45	(10)
Killer Cats	55	(6)
Blowing Away the Media/TV Hunting	61	(6)
Tavern Animals	67	(8)
Trolling the Tropics	75	(8)
Bugz	83	(8)
Dinosaur Season	91	(8)
Dinner Bell Grizzlies	99	(10)
Tarpon Jihad	109	(10)
Snowboarding Waikiki	119	(16)
Last Fish	135	(10)
Animal Rights --- ``Say It Isn't So, Cindy!''	145	(12)
Do Fish Have Orgasms? (and if So, What Do They Sound Like?)	157	(12)
Tackling Life	169	(6)
Angler's Excuses	175	(6)
Bassing Disney World	181	(8)
Of Magpies & Marlin	189	(12)
Ted Turner's Backyard	201	(18)
Now or Never for American Rivers	219	(12)
The Yellowstone --- The Lodge Where All Dance	231	(14)
Marriage, Guns, & Pheasants	245	(8)
Fishing Blind	253