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Upriver & Downstream, edited by Stephen Sautner
Softcover
In excellent condition.
Synopsis:
This collection of essays by well-known
contributors to the popular ROutdoorsS column of the New York Times
covers the best in fly-fishing and angling adventures, from the Hudson
River to the Florida Everglades. Five line drawings.
Upriver and Downstream gathers seventy
columns about fishingfrom freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to
the Great Lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russiawritten
for the "Outdoors" column of the New York Times. Contributors include
such celebrated names as Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, Nelson Bryant,
Peter Kaminsky, Ernest Schweibert, and Robert H. Boyle. Short,
evocative, informative, and entertaining, here are pieces about
fly-fishing for wild brook trout, bait-fishing for striped bass, casting
into tailwaters, or angling in midwinter. The settings range from
Hudson River piers to the Florida Everglades, from Iceland to the
Amazon, and the fish include everything from the common sunfish to the
esoteric paddlefish. These engaging essays remind us of what fishing is
all about: companionship and solitude, challenge and relaxation, nature
and technology, from coast-to-coast to around the globe. Rich with the
particulars of water, light, and air, as well as a keen awareness of, as
Verlyn Klinkenborg puts it in his introduction, "what is happening out
therein the deep, in the shallows, at the end of the line," these
reflections and recollections beautifully capture the natural world and
one of life's most challenging, perennial pursuits.