The wild hogs of Virginia are vicious. They attack, kill and devour. They show no mercy and eat their victims alive. The wild hogs are smart. They strategize with their enemies. They are worthy adversaries. But the wild hog have honor. They will not hurt of destroy their own. The hogs of Cold Harbor implores readers to question our history as well as themselves."--Page 4 of cover.
Chronicling a unique place and time in early American history, this is a story of epic proportions, spanning not centuries but millennia, and even epochs, as the river valley is first shaped by nature into a paradise for all living things—then shaped by humans into a war zone where Native American, British, French, Colonial, Tory, and Patriot forces regularly collided in bloody conflicts.
In 1976 a man driving a sports car was stopped by a Georgia State Trooper at three in the morning on an old highway between Atlanta and Columbus. The trooper was shot dead and the driver fled on foot into the Great Pine Woods. A few hours later a manhunt was launched. A manhunt -- that most terrifying of adventures for both the hunters and the pursued. This is the story of the man who fled the scene so boldly and so foolishly, the manhunt with its clockwork precision, and the men who took weapons into the forest when the prey was finally at bay. It is necessarily an appalling story told in ghastly detail and intimate horror -- because it was a manhunt. It is neccessarily vicious and bloody because it is true. I know. I was there.
The battles and wounds of a war that takes place in one individual. A strange, intense tale about good and evil comets; good and evil people; St. Catharine and witches; hallucinations and visions; living on the streets and long hermitages in the forests; good castles and evil towers; abandonment and forgiveness. This is a medieval journey through a graceless, modern world in search of grace, wisdom, light and chivalry. It is a search for a castle of refuge, the tale of a man crippled for seven years, surviving only by generating a lion's heart and seeking God. Mr. Fulgham has given us the intimate and intense details of a young professor at a Catholic College trying to understand what others presume is beyond understanding. As a religious philosopher and autobiographer, we can only compare him to St. John of the Cross, Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton and -- ironically -- the infamous "Anti-Christ" author and philosopher Frederich Nietzsche. This is a book for searchers of God.
This is a nature book for nature lovers," according to Roger de Rageot, Dr. Sci. (Sorbonne), He continues, "It concerns a young naturalist growing up in a small 1950's town snuggled up to Georgia's Great Pine Forest. The book remembers the boys, beasts and bullies -- the escapes into the woods to find peace and wisdom. It's about animal behavior observed and the boy's realization that animal behavior and human behavior are intimately related -- indeed the same. It's also beautifully written. God bless the boys and beasts of Fulgham's pine forest.
FREE PREVIEW! READ FIRST 36 PAGES RIGHT HERE! The battles and wounds of a war that takes place in one individual. A strange,intense tale about good and evil comets; good and evil people; St. Catharine and witches; hallucinations and visions; living on the streets and long hermitages in the forests; good castles and evil towers; abandonment and forgiveness. This is a medieval journey through a graceless, modern world in search of grace, wisdom, light and chivalry. It is a search for a castle of refuge, the tale of a man crippled for seven years, surviving only by generating a lion's heart and seeking God. (Philosophy-religion-memoir-autobiography-Catholicism-taoism)
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