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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Legendary Outdoor Writer and BHA Board Member Eddie Nickens

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

For more than 20 years, Eddie Nickens, a member of BHA’s North American board of directors, has been the premier storyteller and scribe of American hunting, fishing and conservation, writing for Field & Stream, Garden and Gun, Audubon and dozens of other publications. It’s a radical understatement to call him an outdoor writer, although the term fits the man who has published the best-selling behemoth of outdoor skills, Field & Stream’s Total Outdoorsman. In our conversation today, Hal and Eddie celebrate the publication of Eddie’s new book, The Last Wild Road, a collection of his all-time best stories from an unmatched life afield in the American wilds.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody this is how I'll hearing I got a did guest a guy I'm proud to call a friend today

0:07.1

I'm with Eddie Nickens

0:08.9

Eddie is coming out with a new book right now. It's called The Last Wild Road and it's a collection of decades of his essays on hunting, fishing, life. I finished the book today. I'm pretty much blown away by it. I love his work, always

0:25.1

have. He's been at Field and Stream for as long as I have at least. So just to

0:30.1

introduce Eddie, he's a editor at large at Field and Stream. He's a

0:35.7

Contributing editor at Audubon magazine. Contributing editor at Garden and

0:40.4

Gun magazine and Contributing Editor with Ducks Unlimited.

0:45.0

He's also the author of Fielding Stream's Total Outdoorsman

0:49.7

and the Total Knife Manual and the Total Camping Manual. He is one of the most accomplished

0:54.7

outdoorsman in our country, if not anywhere. The book is it it'll take you from the local frog gig and swamp up to the

1:06.3

Arctic and back again all the way across America the deeply reported stories and

1:11.3

many many pieces short short reported stories and many, many, many,

1:13.0

short, short, powerful pieces just about the hunting and fishing

1:18.0

lifestyle.

1:18.9

So here we have it.

1:21.0

Join me with conversation tonight with Eddie Nickens thank you all

1:25.4

that's the thing about a digital map is they're wonderful they're great you know and

1:31.3

I'm as addicted to all the

1:33.0

else. But you cut that on and all of a sudden, where are you on the

1:38.1

mouth? You're in the center. You're always in the center. The world revolves around your little blue dot.

1:46.0

But that's not how it is on a paper map, and that's not how it is in the real world.

1:52.0

We're losing that ability to go out to my only job when I'm on an

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