Everything a first-time hunter needs, taught the way it has been taught in the bush for generations.

You have thought about hunting for years. You do not have a mentor, you are not sure where the licence office is, and every book you pick up assumes you already know what a scrape line looks like.

The Simple Hunting Guide starts before all of that.

Pat Gatz is Algonquin, from Eagle Village First Nation - Kipawa, in northern Quebec. He took his first small game at six years old and has hunted the bush of Northern Ontario and Quebec for more than thirty years. This is the guide he wishes somebody had handed him.

Inside: getting legal, with hunter safety courses, licences, tags and permits step by step. Your first kit - what you actually need and what can wait. Rifles, shotguns and ammunition matched to the animal you are after, in plain language. Reading the ground - tracks, scat, rubs, beds and travel corridors. Scouting and stand placement, wind and cover, and where animals really move. Small game first: rabbit, squirrel, grouse and wild turkey. Staying alive out there - shelter, fire, water, and getting yourself un-lost. And the ethics: clean shots, using the whole animal, and respect for the land that feeds you.

Written plainly enough that a young teenager can follow it, and thorough enough that hunters with ten seasons behind them have written in to say they found things they did not know.

Three hours. Start it on the drive out.

Hunt to live. Live to hunt.