The expanded edition of the ground-breaking memoir
Little Rivers: Tales of a Woman Angler (originally published in 1995) remains the first literary narrative of a woman in the male-dominated sport of fly fishing.
In essays described as "luminous," Little Rivers features the continuing chronicles of Margot Page’s evolution from reluctant student to passionate angler to married, angling young mother, to divorced, desk-bound angler.
In this eloquent, acclaimed book, Margot Page continues her strong, evocative presence in the canon of fly-fishing literature. Page invites us to her home river, Vermont’s marble-banked Battenkill, to Cape Cod saltwater fishing for striped bass, to Montana's big waters, to the wild Alaskan landscape, and, most compellingly, to the passages that run through her life and echo our own.
She also includes a rare peek at the early years of the national nonprofit Casting for Recovery, of which she is a founding member and trustee.
The granddaughter of the legendary angling writer Sparse Grey Hackle and former spouse of renowned angling authority Tom Rosenbauer, Margot is the author of three nonfiction books and a former contributor to The New York Times. Her essays on fly fishing have been anthologized in numerous publications.
10% of all proceeds from the sale of Little Rivers will be donated to Casting for Recovery.
REVIEWS
“This splendid collection of essays, reprinted from periodicals like the New York Times, Rod & Reel, and Trout, is remarkable especially because Page is able to be lyrical while writing matter-of-fact prose. . . . The book’s charm is enhanced by [her] personal history.” Publishers Weekly
“As lovely, lyrical, and irresistible as a spring creek . . . a graceful intertwining of fishing yarns with meditations on the sorrows and pleasures of life.” author Jerry Dennis
“One of our most respected angling writers ... Margot Page can’t write an ungraceful sentence.... I’ll take this elegant book any day.” Fly Rod & Reel Magazine
“The kind of lucidity, wit, and passion that makes writing that endures ... Margot Page has the freshest, most original eye fly-fishing literature has been blessed with in years.” novelist W.D. Wetherell
“ ...this gorgeously illustrated, tight-knit little collection of essays is a joyous book, full of rich generational dimensions, and informed throughout by the life of water. The essays range widely and are full of wonderful anecdotes....” poet John Engels
“Gracious and gracefully written ... notable among angling books ... Page seems to know where to draw the line and when to put the snapshots back in her wallet. At her best, she writes in a well-schooled lyric realism that reminds me of Gretel Ehrlich of The Solace of Open Spaces, one of the finest recent books about the West.” Fly Fisherman Magazine
A writer, author, and editor living in southwestern Vermont, Margot has spent thirty-five years in the publishing/communications field and has worked as a freelance nonfiction editor, writer, and communications specialist since moving to Vermont from New York City in 1985. Her website is
http://waterlightwords.com.
The author of three nonfiction books, she is a former contributor to The New York Times and her writing on fly fishing has been anthologized in numerous publications. She has edited several national magazines and dozens of nonfiction books, ranging from fine art publications and practical how-to books to corporate histories.
