A Sportsman's Journey

A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects listeners with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America’s Deep South, and in so doing helps listeners understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far afield.

Journeying alongside the author, listeners will savor the magic of sunrises and the mystery of twilight. Hearts will quicken as deer drift from shadows and ducks circle a woodland pond. The ocean will challenge them as they fight large fish from the deck of a wave-tossed boat far out at sea. Restless winds will whisper messages during a spring squirrel hunt on a Mississippi farm. Bird dogs, old guns, old friends, and times shared with loved ones will remind anglers and hunters of those special, shared memories.

Jackson reveals how all of us depend on the natural world and share very personal interactions with it and with each other. This book reminds us that rediscovering, resurrecting, and celebrating these primal linkages are the real reasons we explore the world.

The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"I know of no outdoor writer who writes so well about so many things." (Gray's Sporting Journal)

"Some of the clearest, best writing in the genre. (Mississippi Books Page)

"His writing is so captivating that you can sense deer approaching and envision ducks as they circle a pond." (Wildlife Mississippi)