Trails in a Wild Frontier: A story about American angling pioneers exploring rivers in a once-forbidden land! - Brossura

Hartman, Lee

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1500981907 ISBN 13: 9781500981907

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Riassunto

When newly elected Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared perestroika in 1986, Russia’s once locked border, closed since the 1918 communist revolution, suddenly opened to foreign travel. Rumors of giant fish in Soviet Russia began to circulate in the American fishing community. Soon after western angling pioneers began to travel to the alien land to help unravel the mysteries of Russia's uncharted rivers. In this book Lee Hartman takes you on a thrilling journey into the wild frontiers of Siberia, the Kola Peninsula and Kamchatka, on a mission to explore and open up the last great salmon and wild trout fishery on the planet. He artfully paints pictures with his words giving the reader the flavor of this Lewis & Clark-like adventure, its people, their culture, and economic struggles, as he traveled over the most remote and inhospitable land in the world. One of the harrowing experiences Lee shares with the reader was when his fishing expedition was trapped on a remote Siberian river by life-threatening floodwaters, waiting hours for a helicopter. When lee's group finally got rescued they were taken back to Yakutsk and found out that the helicopter crew was late due to a coup attempt and the kidnapping of Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev. One of the final chapters, entitled "Sport Fishing in Russia Today," is a must-read for any angler considering a trip to this magical salmon mecca. Trails in a Wild Frontier features full color pictures of its land, fish and people once alienated by the cold war.

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L'autore:

Lee Hartman, born in the coal region in northeast Pennsylvania, now lives along the Upper Delaware River in Equinunk, Pennsylvania. A staunch conservationist, Lee co-founded Friends of the Upper Delaware River, an organization that is actively engaged in protecting the cold-water habitat in the Upper Delaware watershed. He currently serves as Chairman of the Delaware River Committee for PATU and has received congressional recognition for his conservation efforts in the community. Lee also owns World Angling Travels and host anglers to great fly fishing destinations throughout the world. Lee Hartman was one of the first Americans to explore the uncharted rivers in Siberia and the Kola Peninsula. Today the Kola rivers are an extremely popular fly-fishing destination for Atlantic salmon that attracts anglers from all over the world. Lee continues to travel to Russia to fish for those leaping silver bullets.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500981907
• ISBN 13: 9781500981907
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 242