Great North Woods: Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Rebecca Newth

Poetry

Clark City Pr

Landscape artist and fly fishing enthusiast, Russell Chatham, writes about the exploits of his friends in these stories of hunting, food, wine and life changes.

Dark waters: Essays, Stories, and Articles

Sports & Outdoors

CHATHAM, Russell

Water Sports

The Massacre at Sand Creek

Cutler, Bruce

United States

Fishing stories by Thomas McGuane, William Hjortsberg, Jack Curtis, Harmon Henkin, Charles Waterman, Jim Harrison and Russell Chatham. Why fish? The answers laid forth in Silent Seasons are wildly divergent. Thomas McGuane cites both "the longest silence," and the opportunity to encounter a bass that runs with "the solid, irresistible motion of a Euclid bulldozer easing itself into a phosphate mine." William Hjortsberg admits to writing about fishing "for the money," while Russell Chatham remembers each detail as if it were intended for one of his paintings. To Jack Curtis, "The fish is a flash of beauty and action enticed from an unfathomable element"; to the late Harmon Henkin, angling "has no greater claim to spiritual purity than sex, dope, or any other recreation in contemporary America." Charles Waterman points out that fishing writers' sunsets are generally "more brilliant than those seen by milkmen and grain-combine operators." Jim Harrison argues psychiatric virtues: "Few of us shoot ourselves during an evening hatch." Silent Seasons has won praise for its assembly of fine writers and the tough stance they take on the ruin of the environment. Besides, as McGuane writes, "You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered."

Silent Seasons

Russell Chatham

Hunting & Fishing

The varied inhabitants of Brainard, Michigan, examine their lives and losses in distinct, matter-of-fact voices in Gerber's first collection of short stories.

Grass Fires

Gerber, Dan

Short Stories & Anthologies

Poetry by noted author Jim Harrison.

The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems

HARRISON. Jim

Martin's Project

Seager, Laura

"Everything in nature is essentially inscrutable," claims Russell Chatham in The Angler's Coast, but his written observations of the world around him are as evocative as his painted landscapes. First published in 1976, this new edition has been expanded to include photographs of the great fishermen and rivers of the West Coast.

The Angler's Coast

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

"In 1983 Valdene, a journalist and enthusiastic bird hunter, traveled around the country studying the woodcock and joining the efforts of scientists and bird lovers to band the game bird and document its loss of habitat. Summing up what he learned about this curious bird and its habits, he deplores the rapid dwindling of the woodcock population in the U.S., due in part to hunters' killing two million of them each year. Valdene makes no excuses, however, for his own delight in hunting and eating the vulnerable bird. This contradiction remains at the heart of his book in which he oddly blends natural history with accounts of his hunting." - Publisher's Weekly

Making Game: An Essay on Woodcock

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

de la Valdène, Guy

Pets & Animal Care

A memoir by the author of "A Rage for Falcons" and "Aloft".

Querencia

Biographies & Memoirs

Bodio, Stephen

Arts & Literature

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