| #1148503 in Books | 1986-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.25 x.50l, | File Name: 0684186306 | 136 pages
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Meditations on Hunting|By D. Ives|This is not a "how to" book on hunting, it is a classic study of "why" people hunt. This philosophical treatise was written in 1942 in Lisbon, Spain, and has been cited frequently over the years.
It is not an easy read, in that to appreciate what the author is presenting, one must give it some thought. The value to me is this requir||If you haven't read this legendary little book, you might wonder if an essay originally written by a Spanish philosopher as an introduction to a friend's big game hunting memoirs could have any relevance to a modern bird hunter. I'd say it's not only "rele
MEDITATIONS ON HUNTING is a broad examination of the condition of life. "The life that we are given has its minutes numbered, and in addition it is given to us empty...we have to fill it on our own, that is we have to occupy it one way or another...." Ortega y Gasset also discusses the evolution of hunting and carefully examines its implications to the hunter--its total absorption of mind and body, its atavistic reverberations, its animalistic fulfillments and its tonic...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Meditations on Hunting | Jose Ortega y Gasset. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.