Bill Burkett Releases New DUCK HUNTER DIARIES Book

Duck Season gets underway with two volumes of The Duck Hunter Diaries. Bill Burkett has spent a lot of his life on the water, shotgun in hand, dog at his side, waiting for ducks to fly over. A good clean shot is all that he asks.

As a globetrotting journalist, he's hunted ducks -- bluebill, canvasback, or greenwing teal -- from the Bahamas to the Pacific Northwest. He even slips in a little fishing for steelheads on the Green River. While he has written about these outings with vivid detail in Ducks Unlimited and other outdoor publications, the true inner spirit of duck hunting found its place in his personal diaries.

As Burkett tells it, "My duck hunter diaries began in a weathered ledger that I salvaged from an abandoned apartment on the bankrupt Tropicana Club property in Nassau in 1969. Over the years the ledgers stacked up. The economics of publishing in the twenty-first century required dividing fifty years of hunting logs into three separate volumes. This entails somewhat arbitrary stopping points in the chronology of a duck hunter's life."

Thus, The New Atlantian Library has just released the second of three volumes chronicling Bill Burkett's autobiographical diaries about his duck hunting adventures.

Burkett says, "If Volume Two seems to begin in the middle of a narrative that is exactly what it does, opening in 1974 in the Pacific Northwest."

He chooses to introduce the book with an apropos quote from Alan Leopold, "At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant."

Thereby continues William R. Burkett Jr.'s tales of duck hunting. If you've ever hunted wild ducks, you'll identify with his raw emotions, cold-numbed fingers, and well-sighted stories about hunting.

Here in time for Duck Season, you can order your ebook (Volume One and/or Two) for only $3.99 each; and the 6" x 9"paperback only $14.95 a copy. Simply click on Absolutely Amazing eBooks and look under Travel/Outdoor, or Amazon.com, or Barnes&Noble.com to download your very own copy.

Get out your shotgun. You'll want to go hunting with Bill Burkett.

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