On the Water

A Fishing Memoir

AvGuy de la Valdène

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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From the acclaimed author of Fragrance of Grass comes a meditation on water and nature, fishing and growing older. On the Water is a gorgeously written collection of essays that all take place on or near the water and pay tribute to the flora and fauna associated with those ecosystems. There are essays about the finer points of tickling rainbow trout in the streams of Normandy, and of eagles and ospreys fishing for bass while barely breaking the surface of the water. There are stories of droughts and floods, of dogs and boats, of worms and rattlesnakes and even of catching and cooking soft-shell turtles that taste like osso-bucco. There is fishing and diving in the Bahamas, tarpon fishing in the Florida Keys, and fly fishing for sailfish in Central America. And there are larger-than-life personalities that are bigger than the fish tales they tell! On the Water is a finely honed and well crafted collection of tales for the true sportsman and makes for a perfect companion volume to la Valdene’s celebrated collection of essays on hunting.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-04-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 11 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:9781493007936

Utforska kategorier

Vattendjur inom Djur och Natur
Fiske inom Sport, fritid och hobby

Mer om författaren

Guy de la Valdene was born and raised in France His previous books include The Fragrance of Grass, For a Handful of Feathers, Making Game and a novel, Red Stag. His numerous articles have appeared in Sports Afield, Field & Stream and Gray's Sporting Journal. In addition, La Valdene is the director and producer of the highly acclaimed documentary Tarpon. Filmed in Key West in 1973 and featuring Richard Brautigan, Tom McGuane, and Jim Harrison, the film was recently restored and re-released. La Valdene lives on an 800-acre farm near Tallahassee, Florida.

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"Guy de la Valdene’s sublime On the Water is the spiritual yin to The Old Man and the Sea’s yang. De la Valdene engages with water, its creatures, and the fishing of them as a profound expression of connection and even love, a way into the self and into the wider universe that illuminates the deep nature of both. On the Water is an instant classic of a memoir." —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain“One doesn’t know whether to envy Guy de la Valdene more for the life he has had or the books he writes. This one, like Walden and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, pulls a catch of big, finely scrutinized and rendered observations on man and nature from small water—interspersing an acutely-studied account of the natural history and seasonal life of a 27-acre lake on Valdene’s property with exuberant fishing adventures from around the world. The resultant mixture of memory and desire, of wit and wisdom, is nothing less than a classic.” —Charles Gaines, author of the National Book Award finalist Stay Hungry