Sunlit Riffles and Shadowed Runs: Stories of Fly Fishing in America - Hardcover

Cowgill, Kent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299289109 ISBN 13: 9780299289102

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013

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Book by Cowgill Kent

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"These stories are sometimes quiet, sometimes raucous, and sometimes quirky, but they all look at fishing and fishermen with the kind of sidelong glance you might not expect."--John Gierach, editor at large of "Fly Rod & Reel" magazine [Cowgill s] ability to relate places as well as personalities is on par with the best fishing writers in the craft, past or present. . . . Cowgill does much more than take you fishing: He immerses you in the culture. Trout Unlimited " Experienced fly fishers will appreciate many more angles in Riffles stories than others will because it s written for us. Fly Rod & Reel Magazine " This collection of stories, covering two decades of his work, shows that he is among the best writers in this genre. Minneapolis Star Tribune " These stories are sometimes quiet, sometimes raucous, and sometimes quirky, but they all look at fishing and fishermen with the kind of sidelong glance you might not expect. John Gierach, editor at large of Fly Rod & Reel magazine" "[Cowgill's] ability to relate places--as well as personalities--is on par with the best fishing writers in the craft, past or present. . . . Cowgill does much more than take you fishing: He immerses you in the culture."--"Trout Unlimited" "Experienced fly fishers will appreciate many more angles in "Riffles" stories than others will because it's written for us."--"Fly Rod & Reel Magazine" "This collection of stories, covering two decades of his work, shows that he is among the best writers in this genre."--"Minneapolis Star Tribune"

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Following World War II, the communist government of Poland forcibly relocated the country's Ukrainian minority by means of a Soviet-Polish population exchange and then a secretly planned action code-named Operation Vistula. In Scattered, Diana Howansky Reilly recounts these events through the experiences of three siblings caught up in the conflict, during a turbulent period when compulsory resettlement was a common political tactic used against national minorities to create homogenous states.
Born in the Lemko region of southeastern Poland, Petro, Melania, and Hania Pyrtej survived World War II only to be separated by political decisions over which they had no control. Petro relocated with his wife to Soviet Ukraine during the population exchange of 1944 46, while his sisters Melania and Hania were resettled to western Poland through Operation Vistula in 1947. As the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought resettlement, the Polish government meanwhile imprisoned suspected sympathizers within the Jaworzno concentration camp. Melania, Reilly's maternal grandmother, eventually found her way to the United States during Poland's period of liberalization in the 1960s.
Drawing on oral interviews and archival research, Reilly tells a fascinating, true story that provides a bottom-up perspective and illustrates the impact of extraordinary historical events on the lives of ordinary people. Tracing the story to the present, she describes survivors' efforts to receive compensation for the destruction of their homes and communities.
Silver Medal for World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Finalist, Housatonic Book Awards
Finalist in History, Foreword Books of the Year
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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0299289109
• ISBN 13: 9780299289102
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172