The Quiet Ground. Twenty Lessons from Deer Camp (en Inglés) - Jeffrey Rittenhouse

Six men drove thirteen hours north to a cabin on a deep lake in the Maine woods. Five of them had hunted that land for most of their lives. The sixth was learning.

Every season at that cabin started the same way. Rifles checked twice. Stands tested before anyone trusted their weight to them. Long hours of sitting still while the woods decided what to show. And when a shot finally came, the hard part was only beginning.

The Quiet Ground gathers twenty lessons from that deer camp, one to a page. Each one pairs a line from the novel The Cabin by the Deep Lake with plain advice an experienced hunter would give a younger one:

At 4 x 6 inches, it fits in a jacket pocket or a day pack. It makes a good gift for a father or grandfather who has hunted for fifty years, a son or grandson heading out for his first season, or anyone who still drives north every fall.

Read it the night before opening day. Then read it again next year.