The heart of the game / Thomas McGuane -- The last pork chop / Edward Abbey -- La matadora revisa su maquillaje (The bullfighter checks her makeup) / Susan Orlean -- Into thin air / Jon Krakauer -- The call of the hunt / Jane Smiley -- Dave Scott, mere mortal / John Brant -- Cowgirls all the way / E. Jean Carroll -- Life among the swells / William Finnegan -- Why do we fish? / Randy Wayne White -- The king of the ferret leggers / Donald R. Katz -- The high cost of being David Brower / Daniel Coyle -- Keeping America's trees safe from small-curd bubble wrap / Ian Frazier -- Moments of doubt / David Roberts -- Voyage of the smithereens / Craig Vetter -- The skiing life / James Salter -- Peruvian gothic / Kate Wheeler -- At sea / Jonathan Raban -- Eternal bliss or bust / Chip Brown -- Everybody comes to Belize / Edward Hoagland -- The Blackfoot years / Annick Smith -- It's a fun, fun, fun, fun country / E. Annie Proulx -- There must be a god in Haiti / Bob Shacochis -- A reflection on white geese / Barry Lopez -- Today many problems / Laurence Shames -- Torched / Michael Paterniti -- Humble is the prey / David Quammen -- Overthrust dreams / William Kittredge -- The big buzz / Ed Zuckerman -- The storm / Sebastian Junger -- Going places / Jim Harrison -- No cannibal jokes, please / Tim Cahill.