Written with Jim Harrison's trademark humour, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, this is a collection of new and previously published essays, the giant of letters muses on everything from grouse hunting fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life - and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death - on the US/Mexico border.