Faithful Travelers [Abridged] [Audible Audio Edition]

by James Dodson (Author, Narrator)

Product Details

• Audible Audio Edition
• Listening Length: 5 hours and 55 minutes
• Program Type: Audiobook
• Version: Abridged
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio
• Audible.com Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000056HDN
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Editorial Reviews

It has been said that life happens while you're waiting to go fishing. Only weeks after his eleven-year marriage abruptly ended in an amicable divorce, James Dodson decided to go on a fly-fishing pilgrimage west. His goal - to heal his wounded spirit and explain as best he could the vagaries of life and love to his beautiful, precocious seven-year-old daughter, Maggie. So with his beat-up truck and his aging retriever, Dodson and Maggie set out without plans or reservations, following where the spirit - and the lure of America's mighty rivers - leads them, on their way to one of America's grandest treasures - Yellowstone National Park.

They travel from the Adirondacks to the mist-shrouded Niagara Falls; from the Michigan lakes Hemingway roamed as a boy to small-town county fairs; from the majesty of Mount Rushmore to the mysticism of Harney's Peak - all the way to the fly-fisherman's paradise of the San Juan River. Together, they are bound by a tie as resilient and unpredictable as a fly-fisherman's line.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A gentle, charming tale, January 24, 2000

By 

A. Michael Latimer (France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faithful Travelers (Hardcover)

If you are expecting to learn a lot about fishing, or about human relationships and all those difficult questions, this is not the book for you. But if you want a well written, charming story of a father and daughter trip out west, this is a great read. It manages to avoid being over sentimental, raises a few interesting questions, doesn't pretend to have the answers but ripples by as enjoyably as a relaxing day on a good stream.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very touching for fathers with little girls, November 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Faithful Travelers (Hardcover)

This book represents the how we (fathers of daughters) feel about the fear of having our little girls grow up and away from us. I'm a new father and this book drives home my priority to spend every minute with my little angel.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding--great to see such talent in an old classmate, May 21, 1999

By 

George Stearns ([e-mail]) (Greensboro, NC (returned after 20+ yrs)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faithful Travelers (Audio Cassette)

Congratulations to Jim Dodson! -- someone who I knew, unfortunately not well enough, in high school. Have been promising myself for quite some time to begin writing. You, and the inspiration delivered daily from my (new) son Alex, just might be the catalyst.