Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress [Paperback]

FINDING A PLACE IN THE NATURAL WORLD AS A HUNTRESS

After thirty years cultivating fruits and vegetables, raising children, and teaching literature, Deborah Lee Luskin stepped out of her garden and into the forest. At sixty, it was time to age fiercely, overcome her suburban fear of getting lost in the woods and her urban reliance on street signs to know where she was. She wanted to forge her own path through the forest by following the deer. A dedicated locavore, Luskin didn’t want just to read the landscape, she also wanted to eat it.

Luskin overcame her ambivalence about guns as she gained a deeper understanding of the hunter’s role in the ecosystem of the northern forest. Her literary acumen helped her read the landscape and—as thoughtfully as she hunts for words—to hunt for deer. With the stories of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, childbirth, and wild nature to inspire her, Deborah became a deer hunter.Reviving Artemisis her story of finding her place in the natural world.

“This engaging memoir follows the trail of how hunting deer grounded a woman more strongly in her community, the forest, and herself—truly a joy to read.”—Tom Wessels, author ofReading the Forested Landscape

“Reviving Artemisis so much more than a story about a woman learning to hunt; it’s a story about following your heart, finding your passion, challenging your fears, and building confidence. It’s a story about growth and believing and trusting in yourself.”—Judy Camuso, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

“On its surface,Reviving Artemisis about becoming a deer hunter, but in its heart it is so much more: an honest, tender and engaging story about building relationship with land and community, about conservation, about reciprocity and responsibility, about death and change, about choosing to stl£+