In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America, both alone and with a host of memorable companions.

Compared by critics to John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America and Ivan Turgenev's Hunters' Sketches, A Hunter's Road is travel adventure tale in which bird hunting is less an end than a vehicle straight to the heart of the country.

Jim Fergus is a free-lance writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, Newsweek, Outside, and Fly Fisherman. He lives in Colorado, Idaho and Florida.

Synopsis from the publisher

"A series of poignant, sometimes hilarious, always honest and heart-felt portraits from the notebooks of a sensitive hunter. Everyone who cares about birds and the land should buy it, whether or not he or she hunts". Stephen Bodio

"If you just read one sporting book this year, it should be A Hunter's Road by Jim Fergus... An exceptional writer, he has an eye for country, an ear for dialogue, a feel for the rhytms of the heart." Tom Davis, Sporting Classics.

"A Hunter's Road is that rarest of books, a word journey that can one minute have you doubled over with laughter, and a few pages later leave you wiping a tear from your eye... Fergus, who by his own admission is not much of a crack shot, has hit the equivalent of a double with his pen. Tom Dodge>, Heartland USA.

"Jim Fergus is a great writer. Forget birds and dogs and travel-Fergus does that every bit as well as Turgenev. What Fergus does best, however, is write about the other stuff - love, life, joy, sorrow, and the land. This book is a damn masterpiece. I want to share it with everyone I know. Rick Bass.