Craig Doria has been keeping journals and taking photographs as a guide, professional hunter and conservationist in Africa for over twenty years. The result of these years in the field is this unusual collection of stories on hunting, journeys to 'where the wild things are' and enchanting encounters with extraordinary characters and 'wild wood drear'. There are also discussions on man's evolution as a hunter gatherer; the contradictory nature of man's relationship with the wild and the modern relationship between hunting and conservation. At the end it is a book which reminds us to fill our...