Interesting book very much in the style of Mark Kurlansky, except this author seemed to get drunk and pass out random places a lot more.I was disappointed by the lack of information about eels in the Basque region. That was all footnoted rather than expressly covered. The parts about the Maori an...
A fun fishing book with some memorable characters, especially Johannes and Ida. The descriptions of the locations is wonderful, and I felt like I got a good sense of the feeling of fly-fishing, even though I have never done it.The 41st parallel is a nice idea, but it didn't seem very important to...
When you consider that stress is known to exacerbate every illness from the flu to schizophrenia, this does not seem so far off; that the gentle art of fishing is not only a pastime, but a tonic. In the seventeenth century, when the average life expectancy of a man was forty, the father of modern...