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41st Latitude: Angling the 41st Parallel
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A Different Angle ...
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"Many of these writers came to fly fishing in order to defy, or to wow, or to woo a man. But once the River speaks, the man becomes a superfluous distraction and a woman finds herself standing alone, in living water, defying and wowing and wooing the self. This is the moment the fly fisher is born. This beautiful birth is the heartbeat of these stories
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A Listening Walk...and Other Stories
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A book of beautiful words describing a time and place almost gone. The outdoors comes to life with humour and tears as one remembers how things used to be, and wishes yet for things to come. This book gave me great pleasure as I read about hunting, fishing, and the spirituality of a life outside.
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A Place in Mind
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If friendships and the outdoor life mean anything to you, you must own this book. If you liked "A River Runs Through It", get this book. The language is spell-binding and the ageless truths that Lea unfolds are worth a thousand times the price of admission to his world.
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A Real Fishing Experience
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A River Runs Through It
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Beginning with the memorable line, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," Maclean paints an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister, two brothers headed in very different directions. Fly-fishing for trout is one thing that unites father and sons, and, in the end, it is the language of the river that provides understanding and acceptance....
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A School of Trout - Poetry
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People who never grow tired of talking, thinking and dreaming about fishing. People who can take any topic of conversation and relate it to fishing. People who cherish the memories of fishing with loved ones. People who consider a perfectly placed cast to be beautiful art.
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An Answer in the Tide
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An excellent book in the usual style of this author. a Bennett's island book. Joanna and Nils have to deal with Jamie getting older and becoming involved with a married woman on the mainland. Very happy to be visiting the island again through this book. very enjoyable.
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Armchair Angler
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Fifty fiction and nonfiction tales for dedicated fishermen span three hundred years of writing, and include the works of Izaak Walton, Nick Lyons, Lewis Carroll, Herbert Hoover, Ted Williams, Norman Maclean, and others.
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At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman
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Bass Wars...
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The book is a third party account of a season of tournament bass fishing mostly focusing on three distinctly different full time tournament fishermen. There are the haves (Rick Clunn), the want to haves (Randy Blaukat) and the have nots (Randy Mosley). The reader is exposed to just how important sponsorship is and the monetary implications to big time professional fishing.
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Best of Zane Grey Outdoorsman...
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For pure reading pleasure of an outdoors nature, noone can beat the wit, wisdom, and writing style of Zane Grey. I purchased this book recently and read the entire length of it in one sitting. Believe me, you won't be able to put this one down! This is a compilation of some of Grey's best work on hunting, fishing, and camping.
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Blood Knot : Stories
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This collection's 10 short stories eloquently and insightfully consider the healing powers of the outdoors and how friends, family and lovers shape a person's relation to nature. Fromm's characters come to the outdoors, fishing mostly, with enough emotional baggage to ground an airplane
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Blues
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The pleasures of a summer's bluefishing off Martha's Vineyard are marvelously evoked as John Hersey reflects upon the angler's art, wonders of the teeming oceans where fish and fisherman confront each other, and the web of interdependence they share. 14 drawings.
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Bright Country ...
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Amid his mother's dying from brain cancer, the loss of his job, and a doctor's diagnosis that his case of the ``meat bucket blues'' was ``treatable'' depression, Middleton (On the Spine of Time, 1991, etc.) finds renewal in fishing the wild waters of cold mountain streams. Fired in June 1990 from a sportswriting job with the Southern Progress Corporation....
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Burning the Iceberg
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Carp Fishing on Valium ...
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Graham Parker? The singer-songwriter behind such brilliant albums as "Howlin' Wind" and "Squeezing Out Sparks?" What's he doing writing a book? That's what I thought when I came across this book. But think about it: song lyrics are basically short stories, so why not? I was pleaseantly surprised to find a very funny, often moving, collection here.
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Case of the Vanishing Fishhook
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Focusing on seven-year-old Omakayas, Erdrich paints a detailed portrait of Ojibwa life in the mid-nineteenth century. Along with descriptions of household tasks and customs, Erdrich crafts images of tender beauty while weaving Ojibwa words seamlessly into the text.
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Cast from the Edge ...
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"Nothing prepares us for the next moment. Or it all does, if we are able to see. We have reasons for everything, and then those reasons shatter. We are utterly wrong and we start all over again. We return to f |