Confessions of an Eco-Redneck by Steve Chapple, Perseus,
$16.50 ISBN 0738205036
FOR a bunny-hugging American friend, finding Steve Chapple鈥檚
Confessions in the Christmas stocking will be a bit like chancing upon a
rattlesnake in the laundry basket. Rattlesnakes may be deadly but they are also
fascinating, and so too is this jumble of essays that take the reader on a
headlong gallop from a fixation with magpies in Montana (his home state) to
trolling around the tropics. Though it鈥檚 often difficult to know whether Chapple
is being serious or not, he is never less than entertaining. He might just
convince you, too, that 鈥渢hese days sporting persons and environmentalists are
apt to be one and the same鈥�.