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For more than twenty years, Bill Heavey�a three-time National Magazine Award finalist�has staked a claim as one of America�s best writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column �A Sportsman�s Life,� as well as other publications, he has taken readers across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens to love hunting and fishing. Should the Tent Be Burning Like That? gathers together a wide range of Heavey�s best work. He nearly drowns attempting to fish the pond inside the cloverleaf off an Interstate Highway four miles from the White House. He rents and crashes a forty-four-foot houseboat on a river in Florida. On a manic weeklong deer archery hunt in Ohio, he finds it necessary to practice by shooting arrows into his motel room�s phonebook (the blunt penetrates all the way to page 358, "KITCHEN CABINET�REFACING & REFINISHING"). Accompanying a shaggy steelhead fanatic�Mikey, who has no job or fixed address but owns four boats�on a thousand-mile odyssey up and down the California coast in search of fishable water, he comes to see Mikey as a purer soul than almost anyone he has ever met. Whatever the subject, Heavey�s tales are odes to the notion that enthusiasm is more important than skill, and a testament to the enduring power of the natural world. Whether he�s hunting mule deer in Montana, draining cash on an overpriced pistol, or ruminating on the joys and agonies of outdoor gear, Heavey always entertains and enlightens with honesty and wit.