St. Tom's Cathedral

Fighting advanced stage cancer, award-winning journalist Bryan Hendricks brushes aside his worries and goes turkey hunting. His adventures lead him to grace, growth and redemption while coming to terms with his son's death, a friend's suicide, and his own mortality.

An unorthodox Arkansas backwoodsman, Bryan obeys inner voices. He heeds the enticements of magic trees and magic barrels. He senses the spirit of a departed friend in a gobbler strutting in a field. He nearly causes a panic by wearing camouflage in a college library and triggers a divorce in an ill-fated float-fishing trip.

Unforgettable gobblers and real-life characters are Bryan's wingmen in a heart-warming, heart-wrenching memoir told in the wry, riveting style that has captivated Bryan’s fans for decades.

Since 1987, Bryan Hendricks has enraptured audiences with exciting accounts of his hunting and fishing adventures across America in print, online, and on air.Hendricks's career as an outdoor adventurer began with a backpacking expedition from Arkansas to Maine in 1987-88. The experience instilled in Hendricks an insatiable love for the outdoors lifestyle and set his course for a thrilling life in outdoor journalism, including tenures at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and the Missouri Department of Conservation.In 1999, Hendricks's first book, "Arkansas: A Guide to Backcountry Travel and Adventure," established his beloved Arkansas as a premier destination for adventure tourism. Since 2005, Hendricks has shared his experiences with a statewide audience as the award-winning outdoors editor of the "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" and also as a longtime radio personality in Central Arkansas. He is a gifted storyteller with a unique ability to transport readers into the scene and fill their senses with the sights, sounds, scents, and emotions of the moment.When he's not hunting, Hendricks can be found casting for smallmouth bass and trout in the mountain streams of Arkansas and Missouri, or casting the oceans for more challenging quarry.A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Hendricks is a friend to all who love the thrill of the hunt and the tug of a fish on the line.