From Out of the Smokies (eBook)

Stories of Fly Fishing and Life

Charlie Tombras (Autor)

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2025 | 1, with an Epilogue by Warren Dockter
256 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-976-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Knoxville native Charlie Tombras may be best known for his fifty-seven-year leadership of the nationally recognized advertising firm the Tombras Group, but in his moving memoir, From Out of the Smokies: Stories of Fly Fishing and Life, he chronicles his personal journey, letting business take a backseat.Born and raised in the Smokies, Tombras grew up exploring mountains and streams, fostering an appreciation for nature and fly fishing that would follow him through a tour of duty in Vietnam and into adulthood. With a relatable, often humorous style, Tombras recollects adventures spanning eight decades and the resulting lessons of friendship, loss, and love that he learned along the way. Emphasizing the value of hard work and perseverance, Tombras thoughtfully examines his lifelong love of fly fishing and leaves no stone unturned as he takes readers from childhood to adulthood in vivid memories and captivating prose. From exhilarating tales of white-water canoeing in Northern Labrador to grief-stricken seasons of loss, Tombras's memoir of spirit and adventure provides a nuanced portrait of a successful man-in business and in life.Through his sporting adventures and other personal experiences, Tombras continues to learn how to weather storms in whatever shape they may take and how to grow in the face of adversity. Much like the wild rivers that Tombras explored and loved, From Out of the Smokies will inspire readers to accept and marvel at forces beyond our control.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.8.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 23 hand drawn maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Schlagworte: Airborne School • Ambush Patrols Vietnam • Appalachian memoir • Back Country Camping • Battles in Vietnam • Bear Tales of the Smokies • Beyond Roads and Trails • Brook Trout Flyfishing • business and life balance • Charlie Tombras • Cherokee Myths • Eagle Creek in the Smokies • Elkmont in the Smokies • Exploring the Smokies • Firefights in Vietnam • Fishing in Bimini • fishing lifestyle • fishing stories • Fishing Tales Montana • Fishing Tales of the Smokies • Flyfishing Alaska • Flyfishing Argentina • Flyfishing Cocos Island • Flyfishing for Billfish • Flyfishing for Marlin • fly fishing memoir • Flyfishing Montana • Flyfishing the Pacific • Flyfishing the Smokies • Flyfishing the world • Flyfishing Tierra Del Feugo • Flyrod World Records • friendship and love • Giant Trout on flyrod • grief and loss • Grizzly Bear Tales • Growing up in Knoxville • Headwaters of the Smokies • Helicopter Warfare • Hiking the Smokies • Hiking Trails of the Smokies • history of the Smokies • inspirational stories • Jump school • jungle warfare • Knoxville native • life lessons • nature and adventure • nature and resilience • Nature writing • Northern Labrador adventures • Outdoor memoir • outdoorsman tales • perseverance and hard work • Personal Growth • Ranger School • Ranger Training • Resilience • Rivers of the far north • Smokies heritage • Smoky Mountain Memories • Smoky Mountains • Spence Field in the Smokies • sporting adventures • Stories from the Smokies • Tennessee History • The Tombras Group • The Treasure of Coc • the Vietnam War • Trout Fishing the Smokies • Vietnam veteran stories • Whitewater Canoeing • Wonderland Hotel
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-976-X / 162190976X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-976-7 / 9781621909767