The River As Looking Glass: And Other Stories from the Outdoors - Hardcover

Woods, Craig

9780828906579: The River As Looking Glass: And Other Stories from the Outdoors

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0828906572 ISBN 13: 9780828906579

Publisher: Stephen Greene Pr, 1988

Essays discuss the author's first fishing experiences, fishing logs, winter grouse, trout, bass, Atlantic salmon, fly-fishing, and the natural world

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From Publishers Weekly:

For Vermonter Woods, formerly an editor of Fly Fisherman magazine and author of The Fly Fisherman's Streamside Handbook , fishing and hunting are more than sports. In this anthology of stories and articles, he describes angling for trout and salmon and tracking grouse and woodcock, and it all has as much to do with human nature as with fishing and hunting. Woods is obviously an experienced sportsman, but it is his own reactions to his successes and failures that interest him most. Salmon elude him, trout outsmart him, and, when he gets too eager for the big catch, there is a crafty old Vermonter around to show who the real sucker is. Woods describes wittily and eloquently the wiles of men and fish and the wonders of nature, while revealing much about the technique of fly fishing and a great deal more about himself. He also tells several good tales about the big ones that got away.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Except in the lengthy title essay, Woods falls short of the verve, humor, and insight of other outdoor writers such as Robert Neill and John Gierach. Still, he is literate enough, and his 19 pieces surely would not embarrass themselves in any general collection. Primarily personal tales (perhaps even, as Tom McGuane suggests, a search for self in the kingdom of the fish), with a couple of tall stories thrown in for comic relief, this collection mixes quiet instruction with entertainment in proportions appropriate to books of this nature. His title is well chosen, his premise good, but ultimately Woods comes off as too bland, setting his reader up neatly, but then failing to deliver the knockout punch. David J. Panciera, Westerly P.L., R.I.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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