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Meat Eater

Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

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Meat Eater

By: Steven Rinella
Narrated by: Steven Rinella
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of Netflix’s MeatEater comes “a unique and valuable alternate view of where our food comes from” (Anthony Bourdain).

“Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson, and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor.”—The New York Times Book Review

Meat Eater chronicles Steven Rinella’s lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten hunts, beginning when he was an aspiring mountain man at age ten and ending as a thirty-seven-year-old Brooklyn father who hunts in the remotest corners of North America. He tells of having a struggling career as a fur trapper just as fur prices were falling; of a dalliance with catch-and-release steelhead fishing; of canoeing in the Missouri Breaks in search of mule deer just as the Missouri River was freezing up one November; and of hunting the elusive Dall sheep in the glaciated mountains of Alaska.

A thrilling storyteller, Rinella grapples with themes such as the role of the hunter in shaping America, the vanishing frontier, the ethics of killing, and the disappearance of the hunter himself as consumers lose their connection with the way their food finds its way to their tables. The result is a loving portrait of a way of life that is part of who we are—as humans and as Americans.
Cooking Food & Wine Hunting Hunting & Fishing Outdoors & Nature Missouri Fishing

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I do it in the UK, just at Steve does in the US, and that connection to our food has been lost by so many eating factory farmed and even cruelly raised meat (if you eat farmed chicken that isn’t free range, that is 100% you).
We can all make differences personally by getting involved in harvesting and eating wild and eating well raised farmed meat (I have nothing against farmers) thanks Steve.

We were born to hunt and consume wild game,

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Steve does a fantastic job of portraying hunters and what true hunters stand for. Not mindless animal slaughtering and delusion but professional conservationists and wildlife lovers, you can't hunt and fish forever without first caring for the animals you pursue and their habitats as much as you care for your own family.

Fantastic book and fantastic narration

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The modern day Daniel Boom, Steve is a true outdoorsman. A living legend amongst us.

With a passion for the outdoors and everything in it. A fascinating insight into his life, wildlife and hunting.

A true hunter, and meat eater, but never a trophy hunter. Inspiring stuff.

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Such a cool book makes me want to go out into the wild and try hunting, Really enjoyed the tasting notes!

Great book

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