Mencken Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Tales of Baltimore in the 1980's

History

Rodricks, Dan

Americas

Galileo Pr Ltd

Father's Day Creek: Fly fishing, fatherhood and the last best place on Earth

Selected by TROUT Magazine as one of their five favorite books of 2019! 
Where would you want to be if you knew the world would end tomorrow? 
How would you want to remember life on Earth? For the sake of sanity and soul, everyone should have a place in the outdoors they consider their personal sanctuary, a "spirit-home" that restores faith in the natural world even as climate change threatens it. Award-winning journalist and long-time angler Dan Rodricks describes the little piece of paradise he found through fly fishing - Father's Day Creek, his name for a river in Pennsylvania that he considers The Last Best Place on Earth. The book challenges readers to identify their own Last Best Place and spend time there. The story unfolds over three hours on a single Father's Day morning. While prospecting for trout, the author reflects, hour by hour, on his experiences with a fly rod and more than 50 years of fishing with his father, friends and children. The book offers advice on fly fishing and parenthood, and explores the wonders of finding one's "spirit-home" midst the noise of modern life. The foreword, by fly fishing legend Lefty Kreh, was composed just a month before his death in 2018.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Apprentice House

Where would you want to be if you knew the world would end tomorrow?
How would you want to remember life on Earth? For the sake of sanity and soul, everyone should have a place in the outdoors they consider their personal sanctuary, a "spirit-home" that restores faith in the natural world even as climate change threatens it. Award-winning journalist and long-time angler Dan Rodricks describes the little piece of paradise he found through fly fishing - Father's Day Creek, his name for a river in Pennsylvania that he considers The Last Best Place on Earth. The book challenges readers to identify their own Last Best Place and spend time there. The story unfolds over three hours on a single Father's Day morning. While prospecting for trout, the author reflects, hour by hour, on his experiences with a fly rod and more than 50 years of fishing with his father, friends and children. The book offers advice on fly fishing and parenthood, and explores the wonders of finding one's "spirit-home" midst the noise of modern life. The foreword, by fly fishing legend Lefty Kreh, was composed just a month before his death in 2018.

"The thing you discover about Baltimore is that you don't have to make it up. The city's full of peculiar, unpredictable, unpretentious delights-a million little roadside attractions. 
So writes Dan Rodricks in Charm City. Here, the popular Baltimore Sun columnist explores the decidedly distinctive character of his hometown. 
Baltimore, he informs us, is a revitalized city that boasts the same sort of amenities as other American metropolises-the National Aquarium, the Harborplace market, world-renowned medical facilities and thriving arts organizations, not to mention top-notch sporting venues and first-rate teams to play in them. 
And yet, Baltimore has so much more to offer. 
There's "Bawlmerese," the city's own language A tavern with a stoplight where green means enter. Plenty of charming, historic rowhouses. Crab cakes, French fries with gravy. And people who call you "hon" time and again. 
Complementing Rodricks' observations are hundreds of images by the area's finest photographers, carefully selected by Roger Miller to help explore the many unpretentious delights-great and small-that make Baltimore the true Charm City.

Baltimore: Charm City (Urban Tapestry Series)

Arts & Photography

Miller, Roger

Brown, Carolyn Spencer

Photography & Video

Towery Pub

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