(It's one of the few defects in the novel that Mr Wilson hasn't quite decided which of the pair is him).Raff's early adventures in the swamps owe something to Huck Finn's; and the novel's denouement, with a monstrously eccentric woodsman and some implausible Fundamentalist villains, recalls the Florida black comedies of Carl Hiaasen, only without the laughs.
These are crammed with technology designed to let even the idlest woodsman bag a large animal.
After this trip Thomson spent part of each year in the park as a woodsman, guide, and painter.
Well, "Child of God" was adapted from Cormac McCarthy; Scott Haze plays Lester Ballard, a lonely woodsman, unsound of mind but good with a gun, who is discarded by polite society.
About Thoreau: "Only a basically idle woodsman like Thoreau could indulge in lyrical states of gratitude to all-beneficent Mother Nature; and could despise his neighbors who wrestled with her".
He was brought up by a single mother who refused to tell him anything about his biological father, but, beginning with a visit to the Vermont woodsman who was his stepfather for a while, he comes to discover a kind of extended family.
An image of an old man with icicles in his beard and mustache is accompanied by a discourse on what qualifies as a "cold" winter, which one woodsman defines as when "'a man working in the woods had to run full speed backwards in order to spit.'" — Andrea Walker.
She lost her way coming over the mountain & a woodsman directed her to a villa in the valley to ask directions to Sant' Andrea.
Heassembles a fence, he marries some sweetheartoff to the woodsman.
Joe Runyan, whom I'd heard described as the last "true woodsman" to win the Iditarod, back in 1989, told me that he used to fear that the race would not survive into this century.
In Frazier's rendering, he is somehow a woodsman, a wheeler-dealer, and a fop.
