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Habit of Rivers: Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Ted Leeson; Foreword by John Gierach

Philosophy and natural history mingle in this remarkable and evocative collection of essays from an avid angler. Leeson, contributing editor to Fly Rod & Reel magazine touches on a variety of subjects: death, art, sex, fly-tying and other mysteries.


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The story of a passion for rivers, trout, and fly fishing, and their sustaining power.

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With wry humor and rare insight, The Habit of Rivers tells the story of Leeson's passion for rivers, trout, and fly fishing, and his experiences as a newcomer to the Pacific Northwest - "the land of unceasing seasons." Leeson looks beneath the surface of fly fishing to explore questions that engage most fishermen: What is the strange gravity of a trout stream? Why are we so irresistibly drawn to rivers? Why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited response? Above all, The Habit of Rivers is a book about ways of seeing the wonderfully textured world that emanates from a river. In pursuing these paths, Leeson finds everything from salmon, steelhead, and trout, to drift boats, art, insects, gravity, death, philosophy, books, fly tying, and microbreweries - and links them together with an intelligence that is provocative, witty, and illuminating. The Habit of Rivers begins with a deep respect for trout and trout streams, and ends in wisdom earned by hard and faithful attention to the natural world.

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  • Title Habit of Rivers: Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing
  • Author Ted Leeson; Foreword by John Gierach
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-11-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781592289547 / 1592289541
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.1 x 0.53 in (22.81 x 15.49 x 1.35 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Trout fishing - Oregon, Fly fishing - Oregon
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006287355
  • Dewey Decimal Code 799.175

About the author

Ted Leeson's essays and articles have appeared in Fly Fisherman, Field & Stream, The Utne Reader, Gray's Sporting Journal, Men's Journal, and Fly Rod & Reel. He teaches English at Oregon State University in Corvallis and lives in Corvallis, Oregon.
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