The Sporting Road

Voici le journal d’un chasseur, d’un pêcheur, constitué de petites nouvelles, des histoires d’hommes, de chiens, d’animaux sauvages. L’auteur distille ses souvenirs comme un hymne à la nature, aux grands espaces américains, aux amitiés éternelles. Hommage à la terre américaine, à ses fondateurs, mais aussi à ses écrivains, Jim Harrison, Rick Bass, Norman McLean, ces petites nouvelles sont aussi une leçon de simplicité dans l’écriture, d’un extrême dépouillement.

More than just a man and his dog hunting adventure, The Sporting Road is a book about the land and man’s place in it. It is also, in many ways, a book about relationships, relationships with nature, animals, and the people who live around us. As Rick Bass says in his introduction, Jim Fergus is a man for whom The common denominator is not geographical, but internal; here is a man who belongs intensely to the living. And slowly, gradually – essay by essay – you become aware of the unsaid: the fact that he fits a diminishing time, a diminishing space, and a diminishing code of manners. That he always puts others before him; that he considers and respects his friends, his prey, his dogs, and the landscapes that engage these things.