Book Review-The Winter of the Fisher

[Birdie]

While not doing any productive work here in AZ like putting photos up to Photo Bucket, I read a most fun book, The Winter of the Fisher written by Cameron Langford, published 1971.

This was a fun read, though sometimes it made you want to cry. It is a story of nature and seeing life as a fisher. It is really well written and many parts of it is easily seen in the mind's eye if you are in nature a lot. A fisher doesn't normally eat fish, but they are kind of like a mink, weasel, or ermine. I saw a fisher den this spring when I was on Plum Island, MA. The young and mother had left about 2 weeks before we were there, otherwise, we probably would not have been allowed in the area.

This is the story of a young male fisher's first year of life. It describes his experience of three different 'men'. how he copes with disaster when his mother and siblings are killed while he is still quite young; his escape and near death from a fire started by the man that killed his mother and siblings; how with his second 'man' he managed recovery; (4) the learning experiences after meeting his third 'man' of staying alive and not becoming maimed in traps; (5) becoming a 'mature' male fisher; (6) and then bidding the trapper farewell.

[AlmostThere]

Sounds like an enjoyable book.
Reminds me of the book my grandmother gave me when I was little called The Song of the Cardinal. I still have it and in the front cover she wrote:
Lenora, wash your hands before reading this book.
Thanks for sharing your review.

[WickedLady]

Sounds like one I would enjoy. Reminds me of a book I read when I was about 10 yr. old titled "The Bear". About an orphaned grizzly.

[Liz]

A "Fisher Cat," as my brother called it, was a regular nighttime visitor at the feeding stump at the edge of the clearing in front of my brother's camp in the White Mountains of NH. We saw him several times while I was visiting, and then the next summer, he did not come back. My brother puts table scraps on the stump and a night time motion camera records the many visitors. He can also turn on spotlights to watch them "live." He probably shouldn't do it, but it is fun to watch the wildlife...besides the fisher cat, there've been raccoons, skunks, black bear, etc.