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Gierach, John Fishing Bamboo
New York Lyons Press 1997 1558215913 / 9781558215917 First Edition Cloth As New As New
128 pp. Celebrates the art of the bamboo fly rod and offers a detailed and memorable portrait of the pleasures of "fishing bamboo." This book has a helpful bibliography and lists of reliable rod dealers and modern bamboo rod-makers. This is an introduction to bamboo rods and to the subculture of people who make, buy, collect and fish with them.
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45.00 USD
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Gierach, John Fishing Bamboo : An Angler's Passion for the Traditional Fly Rod
Globe Pequot Press, The 2007 159921217X / 9781599212173 First Trade Paper Trade Paperback As New
128 pp. Celebrates the art of the bamboo fly rod & offers a detailed & memorable portrait of the pleasures of "fishing bamboo." Has a helpful bibliography & lists of reliable rod dealers & modern bamboo rod-makers. A classic intro to bamboo rods & to the subculture of people who make, buy, collect & fish with them. B&W illustrations
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13.46 USD
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Gierach, John Fool's Paradise
New York Simon & Schuster 2008 0743291735 / 9780743291736 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine
[10], 211 pp. Everyone's favorite fishing writer is back with more fly-fishing pleasures in this lyrical, surprising book of observations on fishing, nature, travel, and life. Classic Gierach at his best: Fool's Paradise is everything that Gierach's loyal fans expect from him: great fish tales, lots of witty observations, and criticisms of all that's wrong with the world today, that is, everything that isn't fishing related and even some things that are. Everything is subject to scrutiny as Gierach weighs in on subjects as varied as cellphones and airports, pick-up trucks and secret streams. First new book in three years: Gierach's fans have waited for a new book and Fool's Paradise will reel them in. There are stories about fishing from all over North America, from Alaska and British Columbia to Newfoundland. If John Gierach is living in a fool's paradise, then it's a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering. Laced with the inimitable blend of wit and wisdom that have made him fly-fishing's foremost scribe, Fool's Paradise chronicles the fishing life in all its glory (catching your biggest fish ever) and squalor (being stranded in a tent during a soaking rainstorm). In Gierach's world, both experiences are valuable, and both evoke humor and insight. Fishermen everywhere will understand Gierach's quest to discover and explore new waters (and then not to divulge the best locations to anyone), the unlikely appeal of winter fly-fishing ("the ice fishing shanty served the dual purpose of group therapy and the neighborhood tavern"), how impossible it is to predict the best fishing ("Everything that happens is entirely familiar, but I don't always see it coming"), or even the absurdity of the entire exercise ("day after day, you're casting a fly that doesn't look like anything to fish that aren't hungry and may not even be there"). Braving trips on small prop planes and down "Oh-My-God" roads alike, Gierach and his fishing buddies pursue bull trout in British Columbia, steelhead in the Rocky Mountains, and pike so fierce that a wise fisherman wears Kevlar gloves for the obligatory trophy photo. But as with any activity that depends on unspoiled wilderness, change is constant. Gierach sees this happening both in the landscape ("You never get to point at a meadow full of browsing mule deer and say, 'You know, all this was once condos.'") and at lodges that now require guests to sign liability waivers ("[I] had a brief vision of herds of lawyers coursing over the tundra in search of litigation"). Just the same, he is always awed by the experience of nature, or as he puts it: "You're on a lovely, remote wilderness river in the Alaskan backcountry. There are people who would make this trip and not even bring a fishing rod." Musing on the enduring appeal of fishing, Gierach theorizes, "We're so used to the fake and the packaged that encountering something real can amount to a borderline religious experience." Equal parts fishing lore, philosophy, and great fish stories, Fool's Paradise may not be a perfect substitute for actually being out on the water, but it's surely the next best thing.
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Gierach, John Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing
Old Tappan, NJ Fireside / Simon & Schuster 1990 0671707388 / 9780671707385 First Edition, Third Printing Hard Cover Very Good - As New
238 pp. Book: Text block pages somehow were wet at one point on the bottom of the pages outside bottom corner, resulting in slightly rippled paper but not damp stained, otherwise this book is new.
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13.50 USD
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