The longest silence : a life in fishing / Thomas McGuane
- Bib ID:
- 1840673
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McGuane, Thomas
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999
- xvi, 280 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0679454853 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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"The quarry - from trout and salmon to striped bass, massive tarpon, and chimerical permit - inhabit these thirty-three essays as surely as the characters of a novel, luring the author back to childhood haunts in Michigan and Rhode Island, and on through the stages of his life in San Francisco, Key West, and Montana; from the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the American fishery, and to such far-flung locales as Ireland, Argentina, New Zealand, and Russia. As he travels with friends, with his son, alone, or in the literary company of Roderick Haig-Brown or Isaak Walton, the fish take him to such subjects as "unfounded opinions" on rods and reels, the classification of anglers according to the flies they prefer, family, and memory - right down to why fishermen lie."--BOOK JACKET.
"Infused with a deep experience of wildlife and the outdoors, dedicated to conservation, reverent and hilarious by turns or at once, The Longest Silence sets the heart pounding for a glimpse of moving water, and demonstrates what a life dedicated to sport reveals about life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Small Streams in Michigan
- Back in Ireland
- Sakonnet
- Twilight on the Buffalo Paddock
- Angling Versus Acts of God
- Twenty-Fish Days
- Henry's Fork
- Tying Flies
- Spring
- Runoff
- The Big Hole
- Midstream
- Seasons Through the Net
- Southern Salt
- The Longest Silence
- Close to the Bone
- Weather
- A World-Record Dinner
- Tarpon Hunting
- Silver King: A Glimpse
- The Hard Way
- The Sea-Run Fish
- Wesley's River
- Sur
- Fly-Fishing the Evil Empire
- Of the Dean
- Snapshots from the Whale
- Izaak Walton
- Iceland
- Roderick Haig-Brown
- Down Under
- Unfounded Opinions
- Sons.
- Subject:
- Fishing
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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