Fly Fisher's Sixty Seasons (eBook)

True Tales of Angling Adventures

Steve Raymond (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
216 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-3408-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Words of wisdom from more than a half-century of angling.

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Witty and heartfelt, Sixty Seasons looks back over more than half a century of fly fishing and writing about fly fishing. Steve Raymond returns with an informative and delightful collection of memories, stretching over his sixty seasons spent fishing. Raymond takes the opportunity to write passionately about the full cast of his life, as well as how fly-fishing interacts with his life as a journalist, and vice versa. He offers sage advice about books, writers, rods, methods, and guides. He deftly ranges from joyful topics to bittersweet moments to a tongue-in-cheek quiz designed to test your fly-fishing sophistication. Other contemplations include:Essays on fishing for trout, steelhead, bonefish, and carp Surviving a career in journalism Fishing for Atlantic salmon vs. Pacific salmon The impending future of outdoor sports It is with good humor, precision, and thoughtful insight that Raymond reels you in. Sixty Seasons is a must-have for anyone who loves fly-fishing or the natural world.

Autor

Steve Raymond is the author of Rivers of the Heart, Nervous Water, The Year of the Trout, and many more. He was the winner of the Roderick Haig-Brown Award for significant contributions to angling literature, as well as the editor of The Flyfisher and Fly Fishing in Salt Waters. After a thirty-year career as editor and manager at the Seattle Times, he retired and now lives in Clinton, Washington.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: anglers • angling • basin • Bass • Berners • books on anglings • books on basses • books on brad • books on estuaries • books on fishing adventures • books on fly-fishers • books on fly fishings • books on garages • books on lavas • books on outboards • books on patagonia • books on prams • books on rivers • books on salmons • books on sierra • books on trout • books on trucks • books on ultralights • books on waters • books on wulff • books on yellowstones • Brad • canada washington • Carp • CATSKILLS • courtyard • cutthroat • de la • Estuaries • fished • fisherman's life • Fishermen • fishing adventures • fishing buddy • fish journalist • fly-fisher • fly fishing • fly-fishing • flyflishing • flying fishing • fragrance • Garage • gifts for fishermen • gifts for fisherwomen • Gloucester • Guy de • hosmer • instinctive • Journalism • Lava • manifold • Meaning of life • Memoir • Memories • miramichi • Motel • newts • Northwest • Oregon • Outboard • Outdoors • Patagonia • Pennsylvania • permit • POND • pram • rivers • Russian • salmon • Seattle • Shad • Sierra • Sport • sportsman • steelhead • striped • trout • Truck • Ultralight • ungraded • Wagon • Ward • Waters • writing about fishing • Wulff • Yellowstone
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-3408-2 / 1510734082
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-3408-1 / 9781510734081