Lines on the water: A fisherman's life on the Miramichi [Import] [Paperback]

David Adams Richards (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada; 1St Edition edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385256965
• ISBN-13: 978-0385256964
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,178,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Walden, but more interesting, January 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lines on the Water (Hardcover)

This book is a joy to read. Richards tells his stories of the Miramichi as if you're around the campfire with him, and spins fish tales, one after another, not really connected but somehow all connected, till when you finish you feel you've somehow received wisdom. David Adams Richards is a master ---- I believe he's one of this era's great writers. Summary: The book is like Walden, but more interesting.

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful comparison of life's subtelties and fly fishing, January 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lines on the water: A fisherman's life on the Miramichi (Paperback)

David Richards truly expresses the beauty and subtlety of fly fishing magnificenly. Whether a fly fisherman or not, this book truly is an enjoyable read. Through detailed and off-beat decriptions of his life and his love of the river, he reminds me why I love to read!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An accurate and warm sharing of memories on the river, September 29, 2001

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Jim Hill (Halifax, NS, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lines on the water: A fisherman's life on the Miramichi (Paperback)

I read this book and every fishing trip I have ever been on came rushing back. As I read I could feel the weight of the fly vest on my shoulders and smell the campfire. No one other than a down home salmon fisherman could have written this book. While he fished the Mirimichi I fished the Restigouche and once had the privilidge of meeting his Uncle, Richard Adams, on the Matepedia.
I know the beauty of the land and the feeling of a line tighten under a heavy fish, Everything is so real, from the sound of the water and the singing of a reel being stripped of its line down to the irritating buzzing of the bugs. He speaks of the friendships on the river so accurately one knows it is not fiction.
A wonderful read that I tore through and will sit down again to read it again to savour anything I may have missed.
My only regret is there were only 5 stars to give it.