Closer to the Ground is the deeply personal story of a father learning to share his love of nature with his children, not through the indoor lens of words or pictures, but directly, palpably, by exploring the natural world as they forage, cook and eat from the woods and sea. With illustrations by Nikki McClure. This compelling, masterfully written tale follows Dylan Tomine and his family through four seasons as they hunt chanterelles, fish for salmon, dig clams and gather at the kitchen table, mouths watering, to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Closer to the Ground captures the beauty and surprise of the natural worldand the ways it teaches us how to livewith humor, gratitude and a nose for adventure as keen as a child’s. It is a book filled with weather, natural history and many delicious meals.

Closer to the Ground: An outdoor family's year on the water, in the woods and at the table

Biographies & Memoirs

Tomine, Dylan

Professionals & Academics

Patagonia

Now completely revised and updated, with full-color photographs and family-friendly recipes throughout. The deeply personal story of a father learning to share his love of nature with his children, not through the indoor lens of words or pictures, but directly, palpably, by exploring the natural world as they forage, cook and eat from the woods and sea. This compelling, masterfully written tale follows Dylan Tomine and his family through four seasons as they hunt chanterelles, fish for salmon, dig clams and gather at the kitchen table, mouths watering, to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Closer to the Ground captures the beauty and surprise of the natural world and the ways it teaches us how to live with humor, gratitude and a nose for adventure as keen as a child’s. It is a book filled with weather, natural history and many delicious meals.

Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, In the Woods and at the Table

Review\n“What is fly fishing? Everything.” Anglers will find Tomine’s book a spirited defense of that thesis. -- Kirkus Reviews\nTomine delivers a work that informs and moves in equal measure. This is sure to reel in readers. --Publishers Weekly\nFisherman Tomine (Closer to the Ground) combines incandescent personal reflections and environmental advocacy in this moving paean to fly fishing. “Fishing was never a sport... for me,” Tomine writes at the outset, rather, it’s “who I am.” What follows is a vivid portrait of a man in pursuit of a lifelong obsession. As he relates, his “steelhead jones” had its hooks in him early, during his childhood fishing for trout in Oregon in the 1970s and, later, as a teen “too busy trying to catch my first steelhead” to notice girls. Arriving at adulthood, he recounts such adventures as catching a 90-pound giant trevally bonefish, and embarking on an expedition to the Russian Arctic—where the abundance of trout was rivaled only by the region’s mosquitos. Later chapters witness his evolution from acolyte to conservationist; in one section, he memorably recalls screening the conservationist documentary Artifishal to a sold-out crowd in Japan, where the “culture [is] built around the eating of fish.” Mixing good-natured humor with a reverence of the world around him—“It starts with the fish itself. The sleek, chrome beauty... carrying all the strength and fecundity of the sea to inland waters”—Tomine delivers a work that informs and moves in equal measure. This is sure to reel in readers. (Apr.) -- Publishers Weekly\n. . . a sparkling, elegiac book. -- The Wall Street Journal\nDylan Tomine isn’t just a writer, he’s a researcher, reporter, biographer, historian, humorist, essayist, and columnist. But mostly, he’s just a great storyteller—one that understands a story needn’t be twelve thousand words to be compelling. -- The Drake\nWith quick delivery, injections of humor and such 
locales as Northwest steelhead country, Patagonia, 
Russia and Japan, Tomine’s explorations will keep you 
in your chair when the river is too swollen to fish. But 
after a day or two of dropping water levels, the author 
will be the first to tell you to go cast a line: “It’s just 
that when the river’s right, the river’s right. -- Anglers' Journal\nChristmas Island. The Russian Arctic. Argentine Patagonia. Japan. Cuba. British Columbia. 
Dylan Tomine takes us to the far reaches of the planet in search of fish and adventure, with keen insight, a strong stomach and plenty of laughs along the way. Closer to home, he wades deeper into his beloved steelhead rivers of the Pacific Northwest and the politics of saving them. Tomine celebrates the joy―and pain―of exploration, fatherhood and the comforts of home waters from a vantage point well off the beaten path. Headwaters traces the evolution of a lifelong angler’s priorities from fishing to the survival of the fish themselves. It is a book of remarkable obsession, environmental awareness shaped by experience, and hope for the future.

Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman

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Biological Sciences

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Closer to the Ground: An outdoor family's year on the water, in the woods and at the table

Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, In the Woods and at the Table

Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman