Six Salmon Rivers and Another - Brossura

Clarke, George Frederick

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ISBN 10: 0993672574 ISBN 13: 9780993672576

Casa editrice: Chapel Street Editions, 2015

Riassunto

Six Salmon Rivers is not just for anglers. It is a classic of Canadian life—a luminous account of the author’s lifelong love affair with the rivers of New Brunswick and their wilderness landscapes. It is a treasure trove of tales told by old-time guides and real-life stories about backwoods eccentrics, early explorers, and fellow sportsmen.

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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Recensione

"This book deserves to rank as Canada's salmon fishing classic, and have a place among all salmon-fishing literature." -Lord Tweedsmuir, President, Journal of the Flyfishers Club England (1961)

L'autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Chapel Street Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0993672574
• ISBN 13: 9780993672576
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Redattore: Brenard Mary
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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