Interweaving anecdotes and reminiscences, a passionate celebration of the art of fly fishing recounts the history of the sport and the author's experiences with fly fishing around the world. Reprint. PW.
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In these engaging essays, the author sheds light on the mystique of fly-fishing. It is different from just fishing, because it is at the high end of the sport in terms of skills and requires a lot of specialized knowledge. Looking at its origins, Tirana, who started fly-fishing as a boy, finds that fishing with rods and lines goes back to the beginning of history in China and Egypt. Dame Juliana Berners, a prioress, wrote a classic treatise on fly-fishing in the 15th century; Herbert Hoover had his own private stream when President. Among the perils of fly-fishing, Tirana lists bad conditions, wrong flies, bad advice, too much advice and, yes, no fish. He describes the delicate situation of fishing with spouse and introducing the sport to his children. Tirana reminisces about fishing in Yugoslavia, Norway and New Guinea; about best fish, best days. In the final piece, he muses on the future of the sport. This is a treat for anglers. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Fly Fishing is a bit different than most modern fly fishing books - delightfully different. This is one that you read for pleasure-- and one that may better explain why you live fly-fishing as you do. It's a book that will make you feel good about the author's fly fishing life-- and yours. I recommend it highly. -- Lefty Kreh
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This review is from: Fly Fishing: A Life in Mid-Stream : Recollections and Essays (Paperback)
I am an interior designer, a painter and art historian, also a writer of memoir and literary fiction, so you can imagine my distress when someone gifted me with a book about, of all things, fly fishing.
No subject could be further from my interests. Why me, I asked? Read it, he said. A sunny day down by the river seemed an appropriate moment to begin. Six hours of riveted attention carried me through almost to the end. And so, I, too, say, read this book. You will be transported into a world of sport, but one which requires endlessly fascinating manipulation and relentless diligence. Years of exploring the shifts in nature's underwater mysteries, the currents in streams and vast waters. No mere how-to or informational projection, Tirana settles into a spirituality with which he imbues fly fishing, a God-like communing with nature that is at once intimate with one's own soul yet conjoined with all human emotion. Deftly, he reveals our need to reach beyond ourselves to grasp the worldly bindings between man and his world, and how precious, indeed, are these resources. Tirana unravels these ties as he stands alone in watery spaces. Often, he invites in his children and his wife, and here we smile at familial adventures. Upon closing down the last page, you will long for a stream, a pair of high boots and a fishing pole over your shoulder. Unraveling the details of this glorious and little-known sport, its history and its various technical aspects, Tirana holds us fast with evocative, lyrical writing, contemporary in its relevance but as fine as any nineteenth-century poetry.
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This review is from: Fly Fishing: A Life in Mid-Stream (Paperback)
The trick in this kind of book is to be both expert and entertaining, and Tirana pulls it off. He uncovers the secrets of this arcane sport as craftily as Hercule Poirot in pursuit of the villain, and provides an engaging personal story along the way -- witness the part where he decides to introduce his bride-to-be to the joys of hip boots in freezing streams. Never having cast a line in my life, I found it intriguing, front to back.
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Mediocre collection of essays,
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This review is from: Fly Fishing: A Life in Mid-Stream (Paperback)
Turhan Tirana throws together a few loosely organized essays, with no common thread tying them together, one perhaps a little duller than the next, and produces a rather unremarkable read. Part memoir, part travelogue, with a little history thrown in, Tirana writes of fly fishing without the self deprecating humor of John Geirach or beautiful prose of Bill Barich. He somehow manages to make moments which lend themselves perfectly to writing-like courting his wife and being held at gunpoint-and make them drab and boring. It is a quick read, a little snobbish, as one reviewer has stated and certainly not the worst book ever, but really just another fly fisherman who feels compelled to tell the world the joy we receive from our sport, and fails to convey its beautiful aura.
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