BADLUCK WAY: A YEAR ON THE RAGGED EDGE OF THE WEST
Book ID/图书代码： 07902212B58375
English Summary/英文概要： “Mine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the wolves. In late July, they emerged from the foothills . . .”
In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch in southwest Montana. The Sun’s twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana—a high valley surrounded by mountain ranges and steep creeks with portentous names like Grizzly, Dead Man, and Bad Luck. Just over the border from Yellowstone National Park, the Sun holds giant herds of cattle and elk amid many predators—bears, mountain lions, and wolves. In lyrical, haunting language, Andrews recounts marathon days and nights of building fences, riding, roping, and otherwise learning the hard business of caring for cattle, an initiation that changes him from an idealistic city kid into a skilled ranch hand. But when wolves suddenly begin killing the ranch’s cattle, Andrews has to shoulder a rifle, chase the pack, and do what he’d hoped he would never have to do.
Badluck Way is about transformation and complications, about living with dirty hands every day. It is about the hard choices that wake us at night and take a lifetime to reconcile. Above all, Badluck Way celebrates the breathtaking beauty of wilderness and the satisfaction of hard work on some of the harshest, most beautiful land in the world. Called “an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals” (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys), Badluck Way is the memorable story of one young man’s rebirth in the crucible of the West’s timeless landscape, a place at the center of the heart’s geography, savage and gorgeous in equal measure.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “如果不是狼的出现，这可能是一个简单、美丽的故事。七月下旬，他们从山麓出现. . .”
在这部扣人心弦的，关于一个年轻人和一匹狼的回忆录中，他们平行的生命最终发生了碰撞，布莱斯•安德鲁斯介绍了在遥远的、微风吹拂的蒙大纳西南部的阳光牧场的生活。太阳牧场近二万英亩的牧场只是占据了蒙大纳西南部的荒原一角，高耸的山谷被绵延的山脉和有着如灰熊、死人、厄运等可怕名字的险峻溪流包围。就在黄石公园的边界上，太阳牧场上有巨大的处于许多食肉动物如灰熊、狮子和狼中的牛群和麋鹿群。安德鲁斯用热情奔放、萦绕心间的语言讲述了参加马拉松、建栅栏、骑马和拉运的日日夜夜，以及学习照顾牛群的辛苦工作，这将他从一个空想的城市孩子变成了熟练的牧场助手。但是，当狼突然开始咬死牧场的牛，安德鲁斯必须抗着枪，追逐狼群，以及做他希望他从未做过的事情。
《厄运之路》是关于转变和挫折，关于每天自己动手的生活的书。是关于会在夜晚唤醒我们的艰难选择，并花一点时间来调和它的书。首先，《厄运之路》赞美了令人惊叹的荒野美景和在世界上最残酷、最美丽的土地艰苦工作的满足。被称为“一个重要的关于和真正的野生动物分享空间、共同呼吸意味着什么的冥想”（汤姆•戈隆伯格，《牛仔的秘密生活》的作者），《厄运之路》是关于一个年轻人在西方的永恒土地上的残酷中重生的难忘故事，那是一个集地理、野蛮、华丽于一身的中心位置。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“对于在野生和驯养的充满变化的边界旅行，再找不到比布莱斯•安德鲁斯更好的导游了；严峻的边疆充满了令人不安的事实，血液与美丽。他精彩散文非常精炼，但讲述在蒙大纳牧场监管狼群和牛群微弱的共存的时期时，细节又很丰富。安德鲁斯是一个敏锐的生态学家，一个熟练的牧场好手，最重要的是，是一个善于自我检查的学生，倾向于赶走过去的恐惧和谨慎对待风险，有着改变生活的经验的年轻人。在《厄运之路》中，安德鲁斯避开了牛仔的浪漫主义与环保主义者说教，突出了人类的经济需要和动物的本能冲动之间不可避免的冲突。他的书讲述了一个未加工的、真实的关于西部的扣人心弦的故事。”（<<洛杉矶时报专栏作家和漫画家戴维-霍尔西）
“这本生活回忆录是一个当代的，有着生态意识的蒙大纳牛仔的诚心之作。安德鲁斯的语言就像歌唱。就像篝火旁的鬼故事那样精炼，他的叙事紧紧抓住了我的心。”（珍娜•哈里斯，《马从不对爱说谎》的作者）
“一个重要的关于和真正的野生动物分享空间、共同呼吸意味着什么的冥想”（汤姆•戈隆伯格，《牛仔的秘密生活》的作者）
“精致的书面和不留情面的诚实，当你读完后，这本回忆录中的关于一个人与狼和荒野的复杂关系会萦绕在你心间，非常不舍。”（帕特丽夏•麦康奈尔，《皮带的另一端》的作者）
“在这本难忘的回忆录中，布莱斯•安德鲁斯唤起了现代西方所有的勇气和冲突。核心是牲畜保护和捕食者之间的仇恨。这本美好的回忆录包含了繁重的农场工作中的所以细节——放牛过程中的突发暴力，建筑护栏的超压劳动。难以忘怀的抒情，这部奇妙的作品应该摆放在每个人书架上的其他西方经典的旁边。”（克雷格•莱斯莉，《冻死和天空的渔夫》的作者）
“One could find no better guide than Bryce Andrews for a journey along the shifting border between the wild and the tame; a daunting frontier filled with unsettling truths, blood and beauty. His wonderfully crafted prose is lean, yet rich in the telling details of seasons spent on a Montana ranch overseeing a shaky co-existence between cattle and wolves. Andrews is a keen-eyed ecologist, a skilled ranch hand and, best of all, a self-examining student of life with a young man’s inclination to push past fear and caution toward an embrace of risky, life-altering experience. In Badluck Way, Andrews shuns both cowboy romanticism and environmentalist sermonizing and illuminates the inescapable conflict between human economic imperatives and the compulsions of animal instinct. His book is a gripping tale of the West, raw and real.”
(David Horsey, columnist and cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times)
“This memoir of life as a contemporary, ecologically minded Montana cowboy is heartfelt. Andrews’ language often sings. Told in a refined version of a campfire ghost story, his narrative took my breath away.”(Jana Harris, author of Horses Never Lie about Love)
“An important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals.”(Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys
“Exquisitely written and unflinchingly honest, this haunting memoir about one man’s complex relationship with wolves and the wild will stay with you long after you finish it, oh so reluctantly.”(Patricia McConnell, author of The Other End of the Leash)
“In this unforgettable memoir, Bryce Andrews conjures the modern West with all its grit and conflict. At core lies the old grudge between livestock protection and predator control. This fine memoir contains meticulous details of onerous ranch work--the unexpected violence of herding cows, the backbreak labor of building fence. Haunting and lyrical, this marvelous work belongs on everyone’s bookshelf alongside other Western Classics.”(Craig Lesley, author of Winterkill and The Sky Fisherman)
About the Author/作者介绍： 布莱斯•安德鲁斯在华盛顿州的西雅图出生和长大。他毕业于怀特曼学院和蒙大纳大学，并在西部已经成功经营了几大牧场。他住在蒙大纳。
Bryce Andrews was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He studied at Whitman College and the University of Montana, and has managed several cattle ranches in the West. He lives in Montana.
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