Uncrowded Place : The Delights and Dilemmas of Life up North and a Young Man's Search for Home: A Book by Bob Butz

by Butz, Bob

• ISBN13: 9781932399219
• ISBN10: 1932399216
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-22
• Publisher: Huron River Pr

Summary

How does a man reconcile passion for outdoors with love for family, community, and home? Butz finds answers in this collection of insights and essays. While others dreamed of sports, he was knee-deep in a neighborhood creek or hiding in the woods contemplating life as a mountain man. Inspired by wide-open fields, forests, and trout streams, Bob headed north. Life is complicated when you're a man who not only appreciates the solace of good country but also the comfort of a warm fire, a loving wife, and companionship of good friends. Though often at odds with the obligations and everyday toils of domestic living, Butz finds what Thoreau called "the nature behind the ordinary," the magic in the seemingly mundane: a trip to a store; the search for the perfect Christmas tree; contemplating life as a trout. Poignant and funny, An Uncrowded Place speaks to the trifles and heartaches that make life worth living, - to every wandering soul looking for a place to call home.

Author Biography

A past-contributing editor for Sports Afield and TRAVERSE: Northern Michigan's Magazine, Bob Butz is also an award-winning essayist, public radio commentator on environmental and eco-political topics, and magazine writer whose byline has appeared in the New York Times, Men's Journal, National Wildlife, Outdoor Life, and numerous others. Butz's last book, Beast of Never, Cat of God: A search for the eastern puma, was chosen by the Michigan Library Association as a ôNotable Bookö for 2006. For more author information, please visit www.bobbutz.com.