A Fly Rod of Your Own (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library) - Hardcover

Gierach, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1451618344 ISBN 13: 9781451618341

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2017

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John Gierach, "the voice of the common angler" (The Wall Street Journal) and member of the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, brings his sharp sense of humour and keen eye for observation to the fishing life and, for that matter, life in general. In A Fly Rod of Your Own, Gierach once again takes us into his world and scrutinizes the art of fly-fishing. He sings the praises of the skilled pilots who fly to remote fishing lodges in tricky locations and bad weather., He describes the all-but-impassable roads that fishermen always seem to encounter at the best fishing spots and why fishermen discuss four-wheel drive vehicles almost as passionately and frequently as they discuss fly rods and flies. And while he's on that subject, he explains why even the most conscientious fisherman always seems to accumulate more rods and flies than he could ever need. A Fly Rod of Your Own is an ode to all those who fish.

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"Informs, inspires, and entertains. . . . Gierach brings a skeptical, wry voice to the peril and promise of twenty-first-century fishing." * Booklist * "John Gierach is the patron saint of American fly-fishing. When days go extremely well on the river I think of Gierach. When days go extremely badly I think of Gierach." -- C.J. Box, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Off the Grid "After 20 books on fly-fishing, you'd think John Gierach would run out of ways to say Me Fool Fish. But dive into A Fly Rod of Your Own and you'll find not just a host of enjoyably fresh takes on this magnificent obsession, but a fresh understanding of why Gierach is the bestselling fish-writer since Izaak Walton." -- James R. Babb, author of Fish Won't Let Me Sleep "In penning a recent tribute to a departed giant and fishing friend, Jim Harrison, I found that no one had better anticipated and articulated that loss than Jim himself. Gierach puts me in a similar position. Since no one writes of our sport more pleasingly, why not let John tell us what we love about it? `We go into wild places to catch wild fish for personal reasons that may be complicated or as simple as the urge to escape the present-which admittedly looks none too promising-into, if not the actual past, at least into a kind of timelessness where life still makes sense.' Amen, and thanks for a lifetime of pleasure and sense." -- David James Duncan, author of The River Why and The Brothers K "Gierach's deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished storyteller. . . . His alert and slightly off-kilter observations place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber." * Publishers Weekly * "After five decades, 20 books and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a master." -- Monte Burke * Forbes * "John Gierach is the American Turgenev, that is, if Turgenev had a sense of humor, fished like Lee Wulff, and was as wise as Marcus Aurelius. This means that no one is in Gierach's league when it comes to writing about trout fishing. A Fly Rod Of Your Own makes you feel you are having a beer with your best friend who is not only funny, companionable, but just great to hang out with. When it comes to fly fishing, Gierach is like a sex therapist. He has seen it all." -- Craig Nova, author of All the Dead Yale Men and The Constant Heart "A must-read for restless fly-fishermen." * The Wall Street Journal *

Biografía del autor:

John Gierach is the author of numerous books on fly-fishing. His work has appeared in Field & Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal, and Fly Rod & Reel, where he is a regular columnist. He also writes a column for the monthly Redstone Review. He lives in Lyons, Colorado.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1451618344
• ISBN 13: 9781451618341
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224