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    A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks
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    A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks

    By Allen Morris Jones

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    In this landmark work, Allen Morris Jones spends a year exploring one of the wildest ecosystems in North America, hunting and examining the philosophical issues of blood sport. In the process, he creates both a compelling defense for the hunt as well as one of the tradition's first formal ethics. Jones argues that hunting must be right in that it returns us to the environment from which we evolved. When we hunt, we're no longer watching nature, we're participating in it as essential members: predator and prey. From this premise, it follows that those aspects of hunting that tend to return us to the world are more ethical, while those aspects that displace us-such as the use of modern technology-are less ethical. This simple, compelling thesis is supported by example, by the highly-personal narrative of a conscionable hunter coming to terms with the central passion of his life. And it's a thesis that finally has profound implications for the way we each approach the natural world. If you're a hunter, "A Quiet Place of Violence" will help put into words those aspects of the hunt that you have found most essential; and if you're a non-hunter, it will offer insight into the allure of this otherwise puzzling pursuit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBangtail Press
    Release dateMar 7, 2015
    ISBN9781311466631
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    A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks
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    Allen Morris Jones

    Author of an acclaimed novel, "Last Year's River" (Houghton Mifflin), a highly influential consideration of the ethics of hunting, "A Quiet Place of Violence," and co-editor, with William Kittredge, of "The Best of Montana's Short Fiction," Allen Morris Jones (1970 - ) is also the author of more than one hundred published short stories, articles, essays, and poems. During his twenty-year career in publishing, he has worked as Editor of the magazine "Big Sky Journal," as acquisitions editor for the Lyons Press, and as publishing consultant through his own business, www.manuscriptmedics.com. He has appeared on the Jim Lehrer NewsHour as a guest essayist, lectured to the Outdoor Writer's Association of America, and seen rave reviews of his work appear on "The Today Show" and in the "LA Times," "People" magazine, "Publisher's Weekly," "Booklist," and many others. He lives in Montana with his wife and young son.

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    • 4/5
      I especially enjoyed the passages throughout the book that related our being as simply what it is, a part of the whole, beginning and ending in natural ways through nature's means and processes. To ignore this and strive against it by religion or anti this or that philosophy is in itself meaningless and I am glad the author emphasized this continuously.
    • 5/5
      Engaging writing and many ideas to reflect on, even as a non-hunter, regarding human nature and our role in the universe.