The Longest Cast: The Fly-Fishing Journey of a Lifetime [Hardcover]

Alexander Taylor (Author), Lefty Kreh (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2001

A journey to the four corners of the earth to experience the world's most fabulous fishing.

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From the Back Cover

Around the world, people share a passion for fishing. The Longest Cast chronicles some of the people and places that define fishing as a truly worldwide pursuit.

About the Author

Alexander Taylor won the Stuart O. Chase Award for Creative Literature at Vanderbilt University. A keen fisherman from childhood, his royalties from the book will be donated to the International Game Fishing Association (IGFA) for the preservation of endangered fishing sanctuaries. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Peter and Beverly Pickford are prize-winning photographers who work regularly for National Geographic Magazine. Their work appears in prestige books, including Miracle Rivers, Fly-fishing in Southern Africa and African Birds of Prey. Past winners of the Agfa Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, they are based in South Africa. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585743860
• ISBN-13: 978-1585743865
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 10.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,972,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" book for anyone interested in fly-fishing, June 4, 2002

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Kenneth Nelson (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Longest Cast: The Fly-Fishing Journey of a Lifetime (Hardcover)

From page one, this book has you yearning to get outside and cast a line. The amazing photography and the author's attention to detail really captures the true beauty of each destination visited during the author's epic fly-fishing expedition across the globe. Any avid fly-fisherman or anyone interested in finding out about great places to fly-fish around the world should buy this book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book on Fly Fishing, February 8, 2002

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James Wildman (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Longest Cast: The Fly-Fishing Journey of a Lifetime (Hardcover)

I have been fly fishing avidly for 20 years and have read several books on the subject. This work is by far the best piece I have come across. Anyone who is interested in fly fishing will find this book truly enjoyable - I consider it a must have for any enthusiast.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bbish, December 10, 2001

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William A. Bishop (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Longest Cast: The Fly-Fishing Journey of a Lifetime (Hardcover)

Everybody has a friend (a relative, a mate!) who lives to fish. This book's for her. Well, there are lots of good fishing books. This one interested me because it looked at fishing as a cross-cultural experience, as one of those things that defines us as being part of the same species. The author and some National Georgraphic-class photographers went around the world and brought back stories and images that made me feel better about being alive and liking to fish.