The Hunter’s Way

I should perhaps point out one thing from the start. This book is not, like my other books, a treatise on how to hunt nor is it about field-craft. Yet it is still very much a book for the true hunter. It is a book exploring the hunters affinity with Nature. The hunter, the woodsman and the stalker enjoy the privilege of being amongst all of Natures wild charges. They see life in its most raw and understand the pattern of life and death. Indeed they often deal death to sustain life. So what mandate do they have from Nature to permit this? Where does the hunter sit in Natures grand scheme? What is Nature and where does she get her power? Man has searched for answers to these questions for millennia. In 2013 I read, for the first time in my life, the ‘Tao Te Ching’. It is a treatise written some 2600 years ago by a philosopher and metaphysician called Lao Tzu. I am not a religious man and nor was he. I am fascinated by the power and wonder of Nature and so was he. This work, The Hunter’s Way, is my own humble tribute to Lao Tzu’s mind-opening philosophy. It is about the wonder of things that we can never hope to understand but should just accept and enjoy. As the ‘Tao Te Ching’ explains – One Life, Live It!