On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher's Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout Pruett Pub Co Edition Contributor(s): Middleton, Harry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0871088924 ISBN-13: 9780871088925 Publisher: Westwinds Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 1997 Annotation: The entrancing new work by Harry Middleton, the author of the popular The Earth Is Enough. This is a fisherman's appreciation of the wonderfully wild Great Smoky Mountains which straddle the Tennessee-North Carolina border, and includes lyrical accounts of eccentric people, evanescent landscapes and unexpected climates among the permanence of the mountains. Click for more in this series: Pruett |
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BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - History | United States - State & Local - General - Sports & Recreation | Fishing |
Dewey: 976.8 |
LCCN: 97036183 |
Series: Pruett |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.97" W x 9.1" L (0.66 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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Publisher Description: This powerful story of one angler's adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains is a descent into wildness, a meditation on the landscape bathed in greenness and truth, and the discovery of a people living -- on the spine of time. From the solace of mountain streams to the frenetic bustle of Gatlinburg, one of Tennessee's great tourist towns, this memorable journey summons readers to confront the joys and sorrows of life through a new understanding of our place in nature and its process. Harry Middleton had to endure hardships to find the queen mother of all trout streams in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. He had to live through treacherous mountain roads, the cloud of airborne industrial toxins that shrouds the range for most of the year, an occasional blast of lightning, and, worst of all, a helping of rancid potato salad at a roadside diner. Like Norman MacLean in "A River Runs Through It," Middleton makes fly-fishing a religion with its own vision of nirvana, and if it takes an occasional descent into the nether regions to attain it, the author isn't afraid to supply the grisly details. This graceful, funny memoir belongs in every angler's library. |
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