Barefoot-Hearted: A Wild Life Among Wildlife - Hardcover

Meyer, Kathleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375504389 ISBN 13: 9780375504389

Publisher: Villard Books, 2001

Synopsis

The environmentalist-author of How to Shit in the Woods offers a hilarious account of her move to rural Montana with her farrier spouse, their purchase of an old farm in the Bitteroot Mountain Valley, and their close encounters with the wildlife with whom they share their living-quarters. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathleen Meyer was born in New York City and raised on the New Jersey shore and in California's San Fernando Valley, coming finally to the intermountain West to live in 1989. A longtime outdoorswoman, she is the author of the bestselling How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art. She makes her home now with Patrick McCarron in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana.

From the Inside Flap:

oming Centennial Wagon Train ended in Cody in a dismal, torn-down drive-in movie theater. Before setting up the corral, we were forced to clear away shards of glass, bent nails, broken lumber. My prairie skirt and petticoats hung ragged and clay-caked, and under a droopy Stetson my frizzled hair appeared at once greased and starched beyond human recognition. A cloud, a sort of vaporousness, redolent with fresh acrid sweat on top of powerful stale sweat, hung thickly about me. Laced, as it was, with a woman's sweet musky secretions, and all gone past ripe, oddly it was a pungency I savored. Such goaty piquance, though, was cause to be shunned in any town setting.

The look of my world had changed. Gone were the high-dollar designer clothes and the zipping around fabled Marin County in a candy-apple-red 1966 Mustang convertible. It was true that I unfailingly sought the ironies in life and, with a kind of dual personality, shifted easily through incongruencies such as town strolls in high he

About this edition

• Publisher: Villard Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375504389
• ISBN 13: 9780375504389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288