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Awesome Books about Fish and Fishing.

Collection of Five (5) wonderful books; novels, memoirs, etc. Great Reading!

The One That Got Away Howell Raines hard cover $25.00
With literary grace, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis return  with a wry, witty, new memoir on life, career, remarriage, and, of course, fishing. Don’t we all remember well the one that got away?

The Founding Fish John McPhee soft cover $14.00
John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a  shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. Amazing life of the Shad told.

Standing in a River Waving A Stick John Gierach soft cover $13
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers. With his inimitable combination of wit and wisdom, John Gierach once again celebrates the fly-fishing life and notes its benefits as a sport, philosophical pursuit, even therapy: “The solution to any problem—work, love, money,  whatever—is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.” After all, fly-fishing does teach important life lessons, says Gierach—about solitude, patience, perspective, humor, and the sublime coffee break

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday soft cover $14.95
What does it take to make us believe in the impossible? For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixture of civil service at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence and marriage to  Mary—an ambitious, no-nonsense financier. But a strange turn of fate from an unexpected direction forces Jones to upend his existence and spend all of his time in pursuit of another man’s ludicrous dream. Can there be salmon in the Yemen? Science says no. But if resources are limitless and the visionary is inspired, maybe salmon fishing in the Yemen isn’t impossible. Then again, maybe nothing is. 

Sex, Death and Fly Fishing John Gierach hard cover $19.99 From the
irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing. John Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water (an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where fly-fishing can be a casual affair) to Utah's famous Green River, and to unknown creeks throughout the Western
states and Canada. We're introduced to a lively group of fishing buddies, some local "experts" andeven an ex-girlfriend, along the way. Contemplative, evocative, and wry, he shares insights on mayflies and men, fishing and sport, life and love, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of it all.

Conditions – good to excellent
Donated by: The Estate of Julia Horowitz

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