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River Songs: Moments of Wild Wonder in Fly Fishing
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ISBN10: 1680517015
ISBN13: 9781680517019
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Published: Jul 16 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781680517019
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Published: Jul 16 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Steve Duda, in River Songs: Moments of Wild Wonder in Fly Fishing, his first collection of essays, reminds us with attentive care to language and gloriously boisterous storytelling, why we keep coming back to rivers... -- Flyfisherman Magazine You won't forget these stories. They'll make you think about your relationship with fishing and perhaps make you look at it in a different way. -- Fly Culture Magazine ...this is the kind of writing--the kind of flyfishing writing, especially--that you simply will not find anywhere else, for the simple reason that no one can tell a story the way that Steve Duda tells a story. -- The Fly Fish Journal Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Winner in Nature
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Essays
Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel River Songs is rich with bracing, authentic, generous stories--writing that revels in language and spirit. Avoiding most of fly fishing's clichés--the romantic elegies, the Moby-Dick-like conquests, the play-by-play detailing a victory over a fish-- Steve Duda instead offers pieces that breathe lived experience, reveal vulnerabilities, and convey a broad perspective of what it means to have a long run with a tight crew. Duda is interested in what has been learned out there on the river: what is it about this ridiculous activity that connects us to this planet, makes us human, gives us hope? River Songs focuses on the in-between moments and the unexpected revelations--awe, fear, frustration, doubt, joy--that are as much a part of fishing as tying knots and chucking flies. Readers ride along with Duda in battered pickup trucks, fish between jobs, look longingly at unfished famous rivers while touring with a country-punk band, and wonder how a fishing trip led to getting a tooth pulled while being surrounded by trash-talking friends. They will find beauty, discovery, heartbreak, good dogs, and the wonder of nature within the expanse of Northwest landscapes and beyond.
Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel River Songs is rich with bracing, authentic, generous stories--writing that revels in language and spirit. Avoiding most of fly fishing's clichés--the romantic elegies, the Moby-Dick-like conquests, the play-by-play detailing a victory over a fish-- Steve Duda instead offers pieces that breathe lived experience, reveal vulnerabilities, and convey a broad perspective of what it means to have a long run with a tight crew. Duda is interested in what has been learned out there on the river: what is it about this ridiculous activity that connects us to this planet, makes us human, gives us hope? River Songs focuses on the in-between moments and the unexpected revelations--awe, fear, frustration, doubt, joy--that are as much a part of fishing as tying knots and chucking flies. Readers ride along with Duda in battered pickup trucks, fish between jobs, look longingly at unfished famous rivers while touring with a country-punk band, and wonder how a fishing trip led to getting a tooth pulled while being surrounded by trash-talking friends. They will find beauty, discovery, heartbreak, good dogs, and the wonder of nature within the expanse of Northwest landscapes and beyond.
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