Zane Grey on Fishing (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

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"His talent as a storyteller, his keen eye for detail and his humorous nature all come through in this collection of excerpts and essays. This book is a great way to get away-without ever leaving home."--Phoenix magazine
-- Review --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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"Zane Grey on Fishing offers some of the author's best writing: don't let this one get away!"--Library Journal

"The book is a selection of some of Grey's best work, and the stories and excerpts reveal a man who understood that angling is more than an activity. It is a lifestyle."--Great Lakes Boating

"What has virtually remained hidden behind his conventional formulalike books in the Western genre is that Grey's best writing came when he wrote about angling. Here he was free to blend his talent for narrative and sense of humour. " --Atlantic Salmon Journal

"Of course, the big daddy of far-flung fishing is Zane Grey. This is an excellent...reader for those who may want to dip into his truly fabulous fishing life. --Gray's Sporting Journal

"His talent as a storyteller, his keen eye for detail and his humorous nature all come through in this collection of excerpts and essays. This book is a great way to get away-without ever leaving home."--Phoenix magazine

"This holds some of his best literary pieces on fishing and is a lovely, smooth collection thanks to the superb editing of Terry Mort. Highly recommended."-- Bookwatch

"Surely the longer a man fishes the wealthier he becomes in experience, in reminiscence, in love of nature, if he goes out with the harvest of a quiet eye, free from the plague of himself."
--Zane Grey

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159228664X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592286645
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #749,004 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Utimate Fisherman, February 27, 2008

By	A. N. Baker "Cape Brett Angler" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This selection of fishing stories from the 1920s and 30s by Zane Grey will fire the imagination and fishing passion of any angler. Excerpts are from Greys major works on his fishing adventures in California, the Pacific Northwest, Floria, Nova Scotia, New Zealand (my own country), Australia, Mexico, Tahiti, and the Galapagos Islands. No-one, even these days, writes about fishing quite like Zane Grey - his colourful and wonderfully descriptive language brings alive his detailed and authoritative accounts of the exciting battles won and lost with the toughest fish the oceans and rivers of the world provide. It is interesting that many of his best stories relate to battles lost - many fishermen would have given up in disappointment, but not Grey - he continued on searching for the elusive and record fish all his life, and from any perspective was enormously successful. If any improvement could be made to this book, it could be the inclusion of dates of Grey's fishing expeditions, to give the reader a better sense of chronology. Of course what this book does is whet one's appetite for more, and although I have "The Angler's Eldorado", an account of his New Zealand expeditions, plus 'Tales of Fishing in Virgin Seas", about Mexico and the Galapagos Islands, I will not be satisfied until I have read the full acounts of all his fishing exploits. But Terry Mort's collection is a wonderful start.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This holds some of his best literary pieces on fishing, April 3, 2004

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zane Grey on Fishing (Hardcover)

Zane Grey made his name writing Western novels, but his very best writing revolves around fishing. Grey's first fishing article appeared in 1902, and he published continuously on the topic until his death in 1939. This holds some of his best literary pieces on fishing, and includes a foreword by Loren Grey, and is a lovely, smooth collection thanks to the superb editing of Terry Mort. Highly recommended.