Turning for Home
There is a juncture in every journey when your heart must find soon again something long, dear, and gently known.
There is a waver in the wildest of wanderlust when the soul runs dry and must come again to the thing, the place, or the somebody that can make it replete.
There is to every life an awakening that the miles ahead are greatly less than the ones behind, that beyond all things lies an end—that you must come again as closely as you can to where you begin.
Turning for “home” . . .
It is not always back to where you departed. It is not always from the place you have been. It is as much of the mind as of the matter—as much a coming, oftentimes, as a going.
Sometimes the voyage is easy; sometimes the passage is steep.
When we follow the ache of our souls, we discover that our emotions have been buried in many places, and that easily the most painful of these are those to which we can never return at all.
Here, in a new and eclectic compilation of masterful stories and essays, one of the most revered sporting authors of our time contemplates the homecomings of the sportsman’s heart. He unearths a treasury of broadly divergent encounters, from the delightfully absurd hilarity of “Love Gloves,” to the piercingly intense melancholy of “A Prayer from Dark Timber.” Each is told with an insight and dexterity that rarely gains expression, and each is drawn from the timeless and beloved pathways of the sporting life that wander between a laugh and a tear.

Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Turning for Home
There is a juncture in every journey when your heart must find soon again something long, dear, and gently known.
There is a waver in the wildest of wanderlust when the soul runs dry and must come again to the thing, the place, or the somebody that can make it replete.
There is to every life an awakening that the miles ahead are greatly less than the ones behind, that beyond all things lies an end—that you must come again as closely as you can to where you begin.
Turning for “home” . . .
It is not always back to where you departed. It is not always from the place you have been. It is as much of the mind as of the matter—as much a coming, oftentimes, as a going.
Sometimes the voyage is easy; sometimes the passage is steep.
When we follow the ache of our souls, we discover that our emotions have been buried in many places, and that easily the most painful of these are those to which we can never return at all.
Here, in a new and eclectic compilation of masterful stories and essays, one of the most revered sporting authors of our time contemplates the homecomings of the sportsman’s heart. He unearths a treasury of broadly divergent encounters, from the delightfully absurd hilarity of “Love Gloves,” to the piercingly intense melancholy of “A Prayer from Dark Timber.” Each is told with an insight and dexterity that rarely gains expression, and each is drawn from the timeless and beloved pathways of the sporting life that wander between a laugh and a tear.

Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Turning for Home

Turning for Home

by Mike Gaddis
Turning for Home

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There is a juncture in every journey when your heart must find soon again something long, dear, and gently known.
There is a waver in the wildest of wanderlust when the soul runs dry and must come again to the thing, the place, or the somebody that can make it replete.
There is to every life an awakening that the miles ahead are greatly less than the ones behind, that beyond all things lies an end—that you must come again as closely as you can to where you begin.
Turning for “home” . . .
It is not always back to where you departed. It is not always from the place you have been. It is as much of the mind as of the matter—as much a coming, oftentimes, as a going.
Sometimes the voyage is easy; sometimes the passage is steep.
When we follow the ache of our souls, we discover that our emotions have been buried in many places, and that easily the most painful of these are those to which we can never return at all.
Here, in a new and eclectic compilation of masterful stories and essays, one of the most revered sporting authors of our time contemplates the homecomings of the sportsman’s heart. He unearths a treasury of broadly divergent encounters, from the delightfully absurd hilarity of “Love Gloves,” to the piercingly intense melancholy of “A Prayer from Dark Timber.” Each is told with an insight and dexterity that rarely gains expression, and each is drawn from the timeless and beloved pathways of the sporting life that wander between a laugh and a tear.

Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935342014
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 06/03/2014
Pages: 388
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Mike Gaddis is senior editor for Sporting Classics magazine. His work has appeared in Audubon, Wildfowl, The Pointing Dog Journal, and Wildlife in North Carolina. He is also the author of several books on the sporting life, including his award-winning novel, Jenny Willow. He and his wife, Loretta, reside in Creedmoor, North Carolina, with the seventh generation of his beloved setters.

Table of Contents

1 Turning for Home 1

2 Time and the River 5

3 Christmas Past 9

4 Believing 12

5 Confession is Good for Your Soul 18

6 Fowl Day at Neupamba 22

7 Prairies of Peace 27

8 Highland Hopes 35

9 River of Many Returns 40

10 Wings & Wonder (Argentina I) 50

11 The Seventh Hope 57

12 Plarse Whisperers 68

13 Freedom's Eden 72

14 America ain't America Anymore 76

15 Jurisprudence 80

16 Notionable He Was 85

17 Let God Know 89

18 Let Me Tell You a Secret 93

19 Salmonflies & the Theory of Predictability 98

20 Once There was Eden 102

21 Africa 106

22 Mr. Majestik 111

23 Up the Spiral Staircase 119

24 Puppy Love 127

25 Soldier of the Tenth Legion 131

26 Silent Spring 135

27 Play It Again, Sam (Argentina II) 143

28 Land of Sun & Tears 149

29 The Loadin' Contest 157

30 Last Laugh 163

31 Love Gloves 167

32 Surrender 173

33 The Pride Inside 177

34 The Wayfarer 181

35 The Hunt that Might Have Been 185

36 January Wish 189

37 To Be or Not To Be 192

38 Rat Killin' 196

39 Being Too Happy ain't Respectable 200

40 Walking on Water 205

41 Gods & Generals 209

42 Agentina Yesteryear (Argentina III) 213

43 Omen of Goodness 222

44 The Impossible Dream 229

45 Beckoning 237

46 Levi 241

47 Big Six 246

48 This Man's Shrine 250

49 Honesty Row 254

50 And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth 258

51 Sometimes You Can't Get Back 262

52 The Gift 266

53 Call to Glory 272

54 The Battle of West Chester 282

55 Turn of Fate 286

56 Church in the Wildwood 291

57 A Cocker Christmas 299

58 Yuletide on the Flint 307

59 Treasure Stories 315

60 Old Dog 323

61 The Angel's Share 332

62 Season of Joy, Season of Pain 336

63 When You Reach September 340

64 Between a Laugh & a Tear 344

65 They Can Forget the Angels 348

66 The Sound of Music 352

67 A Prayer from Dark Timber 356

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