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"Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.For the first time, two of John Gierach&#8217;s most popular fishing books are collected in one volume&#8212;a double dose of delight for longtime fans or first-time visitors to Gierach country.As Gierach astutely observes in Dances with Trout, &#8220;Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It&#8217;s not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.&#8221; This observation might also describe Gierach&#8217;s writing&#8212;catching fish might be the subject, but most of the fun and (mis)adventure comes well before that point. Whether it&#8217;s fishing close to home waters (Colorado) or farther afield (Alaska, Scotland, Texas); ice-fishing, tournament fishing, or night fishing; fishing for trout, salmon, carp, splake, or grayling; fishing with familiar companions like A.K. Best or the enigmatic &#8220;Zen master among fishing guides&#8221;; no detail of the fishing life is too insignificant or too absurd for Gierach.As he writes in Another Lousy Day in Paradise, &#8220;The real truth about fly-fishing is, it is beautiful beyond description in almost every way, and when a certain kind of person is confronted with a certain kind of beauty, they are either saved or ruined for life, or a little bit of both.&#8221; So start reading and be saved&#8212;or ruined&#8212;by Gierach&#8217;s wonderful insights into the world around us."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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