This article is part of a series of stories about hunting , fishing , and foraging experiences across North America, from harvesting sea urchins along California's Sonoma Coast to salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska .

There are two types of luxury hotels these days: Those where you don’t have to lift a finger. And those where you might find yourself elbow-deep in the cavity of an elk that you, of all people, just harvested. As in: stalked, shot, and gutted, and butchered.

Camouflage not your style? Maybe you’re digging chanterelles in windswept western Scotland. Or prying mussels off rocks along South Africa’s Cape Peninsula . Or: totani-fishing off the Amalfi Coast in a wooden boat built by a local fisherman whose family has been squid fishing in the Tyrrhennian Sea for generations.…