What the River Knows: An Angler in MidstreamUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 - 253 halaman At the age of forty-two, Wayne Fields set upon a sort of pilgrimage when he waded the near twenty-mile stretch of a small river in northern Michigan with fly rod in hand. He emerged with a beautiful and poignant memoir, a meditation on families and aging, and a whimsical response to what time, and streams, and those we care about bring into our lives. |
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... mornings , I have shut off the alarm clock without getting up . My lack of enthusiasm may also stem from the fact that Joe , a neighbor on the lake , and the one who introduced me to fly - fishing , has rarely gone to the river this ...
... mornings , I have shut off the alarm clock without getting up . My lack of enthusiasm may also stem from the fact that Joe , a neighbor on the lake , and the one who introduced me to fly - fishing , has rarely gone to the river this ...
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... mornings as they cut firewood and fence posts from the scraggli- est trees on the creek bottom . Farther downstream , and in sum- mer , I helped my grandfather tend a cucumber patch that he cultivated on a small island cut by an oxbow ...
... mornings as they cut firewood and fence posts from the scraggli- est trees on the creek bottom . Farther downstream , and in sum- mer , I helped my grandfather tend a cucumber patch that he cultivated on a small island cut by an oxbow ...
Halaman 12
... morning sun , its wingspan breathtakingly wide , and I watch through the plastic bubble in our roof the long , low flight over the lake , watch the sudden dive and the backward thrust of legs and talons as it takes its prey . A u g и ...
... morning sun , its wingspan breathtakingly wide , and I watch through the plastic bubble in our roof the long , low flight over the lake , watch the sudden dive and the backward thrust of legs and talons as it takes its prey . A u g и ...
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August 1 | 13 |
August 6 | 54 |
August 7 | 68 |
August 8 | 84 |
August 9 | 90 |
August 10 | 111 |
August 14 | 132 |
August 16 | 151 |
August 19 | 202 |
August 20 | 217 |
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Istilah dan frasa umum
Aaron ahead alder alder branches asked backcast bank Basswood beaver beaver dam bend beneath birch branches break bridge brook trout brookie brown Buddy Holly cabin Captain Kangaroo cast catch cedar Cook's Run curve dark dead downstream edge Elizabeth father feet fish fly rod grass gravel hand hatchery head headwaters Highway Highway 16 hole hope Iron River joe-pye weed Karen lake legs lifted light limbs logging look marsh Meadows mile morning move muddler nearly never once path perhaps pine pond pool popple pull reach ridge rises river road rocks Sarah seems shallow side silt Smeagol snag somehow somewhere spruce stream summer surface talked things thought timber told trail trees trout turn Uncle Upper Peninsula upstream voice wade waders walk watch weeds white pine yards
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