Driftless Stories: Outdoors in Southwest Wisconsin [Paperback]

John Motoviloff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2001

Driftless stories is a meditation on place, as seen through fishing and hunting. If you'd like to see a tableau of upland, stream and farm that feels fifty and sometimes five hundred years old, then come along.

Editorial Reviews

Review

He knows creatures of the water and sky; he speaks with knowledge of the past and hope for the future. -- Larry M. Gavin, Senior Editor, Midwest Flyfishing

He shows remarkable talent for taking the reader along with him into creek valleys, woods and streams of southwest Wisconsin. -- Ben Logan, author of The Land Remembers and The Empty Meadow

About the Author

John Motoviloff worked in scholarly publishing for ten years and is now a freelance writer. He was educated at Boston College and University of Wisconsin-Madison. His writing has appeared in national conservation, literary, and sporting magazines, including Ducks Unlimited and Gray's Sporting Journal. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife Kerry, and Lab, Tasha. In autumn he can most likely be found at his dacha on the banks of the Kickapoo River.

Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Prairie Oak Press; 1st edition (June 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879483807
• ISBN-13: 978-1879483804
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,663,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful little book, September 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Driftless Stories: Outdoors in Southwest Wisconsin (Paperback)

Billed as a collection of hunting and fishing essays, Motoviloff brings the sights, sounds and smells of the driftless region to life with his vivid prose. While some are straight hunting and fishing tales, most are splendid little vignettes which reveal a telling, almost religious, bond between the author and the places of which he writes. A wonderful little book.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Father's Day recommendation, June 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Driftless Stories: Outdoors in Southwest Wisconsin (Paperback)

a great book for father's day a. Any outdoors person concerned with nature and balance will love this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book, December 9, 2009

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Robert Amadon (Edgerton, Wi) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Driftless Stories: Outdoors in Southwest Wisconsin (Paperback)

This is a fantastic book. The only complaint I had was that when I finished reading it I wanted more. It is about the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin. The beauty of the area, it's wildlife and mystique. Written by a man who truly appreciates it.

I believe that the driftless area has some of the prettiest landscape in the world. But it is a beauty that is subtle and in a way masculine. It is very evident in the rock formations and rolling forested hills, but it also hides in the details of small creeks forming numerous miniature waterfalls as they tumble their way to the Mississippi River. John Motoviloof captures all of this in a way that only someone who found the area later in life probably could.

Dan Small, a local outdoor writer says it best in his review of the book. "Spare and rugged, yet rich in detail and meaning, like the special region it takes as it's subject, 'Driftless Stories' is a special book."