Author: Stephen Sautner
Publisher: BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE, Apr 2007
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-307-38102-1
Synopsis
Gathers seventy columns about fishingfrom freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to the Great Lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russiawritten for the Outdoors column of the New York Times. 6x9 inches, 304 pgs.
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Contributors include such celebrated names as Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, Nelson Bryant, Peter Kaminsky, Ernest Schweibert, and Robert H. Boyle. Short, evocative, informative, and entertaining, here are pieces about fly-fishing for wild brook trout, bait-fishing for striped bass, casting into tailwaters, or angling in midwinter. The settings range from Hudson River piers to the Florida Everglades, from Iceland to the Amazon, and the fish include everything from the common sunfish to the esoteric paddlefish. These engaging essays remind us of what fishing is all about: companionship and solitude, challenge and relaxation, nature and technology, from coast-to-coast to around the globe.
Rich with the particulars of water, light, and air, as well as a keen awareness of, as Verlyn Klinkenborg puts it in his introduction, what is happening out therein the deep, in the shallows, at the end of the line, these reflections and recollections beautifully capture the natural world and one of lifes most challenging, perennial pursuits.
