Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's ProgressRowman & Littlefield, 1 мая 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 224 One of the most eccentric and riveting voices to be heard in the world of fly fishing has his say on just about every aspect of angling. |
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... writing from the pub- lisher . Requests for permission should be addressed to The Globe Pequot Press , P.O. Box 480 , Guilford , Connecticut 06437 . The Lyons Press is an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press . First hard cover edition ...
... writing from the pub- lisher . Requests for permission should be addressed to The Globe Pequot Press , P.O. Box 480 , Guilford , Connecticut 06437 . The Lyons Press is an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press . First hard cover edition ...
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... writer could not be more fortunate . Jim marries a lifetime of angling skill and experi- ence to an astonishingly ( at times alarmingly ) fertile imagination , and the offspring is this remarkable collection of stories and essays ...
... writer could not be more fortunate . Jim marries a lifetime of angling skill and experi- ence to an astonishingly ( at times alarmingly ) fertile imagination , and the offspring is this remarkable collection of stories and essays ...
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... write who we are . The words are stamped with the temperament , disposition , and personality of the writer . And like the voice in this book , Babb is doggedly inde- pendent and unconventional , a " different drummer , " as Thoreau ...
... write who we are . The words are stamped with the temperament , disposition , and personality of the writer . And like the voice in this book , Babb is doggedly inde- pendent and unconventional , a " different drummer , " as Thoreau ...
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... writer for whom practically nothing is sacred , noth- ing to be taken too seriously . Not fishing , not fisherman , and most especially not himself . —Ted Leeson February 1999 An Apology No life , my honest scholar , no xiv / Crosscurrents.
... writer for whom practically nothing is sacred , noth- ing to be taken too seriously . Not fishing , not fisherman , and most especially not himself . —Ted Leeson February 1999 An Apology No life , my honest scholar , no xiv / Crosscurrents.
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... write , and as I am by default both a fisherman and a writer I can no more resist this course than the one that dictates I sleep , eat , and excrete . Certainly I didn't choose to become a fly fisherman , no more than I chose to be born ...
... write , and as I am by default both a fisherman and a writer I can no more resist this course than the one that dictates I sleep , eat , and excrete . Certainly I didn't choose to become a fly fisherman , no more than I chose to be born ...
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Fishing with a Wet Fly | 39 |
The Indicator Papers | 45 |
The Great Bream Expeditions | 53 |
The Idiocy of Youth | 61 |
New Roots from Old | 71 |
A Pond of Ones Own | 77 |
Leave It to Beavers | 117 |
Gone Mad in the Midday Sun | 125 |
Thy Rod and Thy Staff | 133 |
Branching Out | 141 |
Appleknocker Time | 147 |
Cabo Wabo | 155 |
Defenders of Midway | 165 |
Ursa Major | 177 |
In the Wake of Henry D | 87 |
Alone on a Nameless Stream | 95 |
Against the Grain | 103 |
Ungava Ungawa | 189 |
A Proper Toff | 201 |
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Стр. 1 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Стр. 2 - We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.