Six Salmon Rivers and Another
Autor George Frederick Clarke Editat de Mary Brenarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2015
George Frederick Clarke was a man of broad and passionate interests-writer, archaeologist, environmentalist and lifelong angler. Six Salmon Rivers-and Another is full of thrilling stories of salmon caught and salmon lost on New Brunswick rivers. But what makes it more than an angling classic is the "other river" that threads through it.
Time and again Clarke puts into words the intangible things that make anglers love their sport: the saltiness of the guides; the camaraderie of the campfire; and above all the sights, scents and sounds of the wilderness-"so interesting, so primitive, so remote from the usual haunts of men."
The "other river" is, in a word, contentment; the deep delight in the flow of time and place that wilderness woods and rivers can impart. "A day off is a day gained," says Clarke; his book tells us why.
George Frederick Clarke (1883-1974) was the author of thirteen books and dozens of short stories. He lived in Woodstock, NB. Mary Bernard is Clarke's granddaughter and biographer. She is the editor of the George Frederick Clarke Project, which is republishing his books.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780993672576
ISBN-10: 0993672574
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Chapel Street Editions
ISBN-10: 0993672574
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Chapel Street Editions
Notă biografică
George Frederick Clarke (1883-1974) was a man of the St. John River valley and a true romantic. He wanted to be a writer, and a writer he became, against great odds, and created a body of work as full of adventure and romance as his own life. But he himself was as extraordinary as anything he wrote, full of contradictions: a romantic idealist who nearly left his wife and daughters for his lover and their son-a love affair that shocked and polarised his home town of Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. He rose above the scandal by sheer force of character. By the 1960s he was one of the best-known men in New Brunswick, the "great-hearted old man" whom the poet Alden Nowlan knew and loved-and a bridge to a new era that is coming to value both the conservation of human communities and the beauty of the natural world.