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PublisherTouchstone

ISBN-100684865971

ISBN-139780684865973

eBay Product ID (ePID)1175020

Product Key Features

Book TitleRoyal Coachman : the Lore and Legends of Fly-Fishing

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicGeneral, Fishing, Essays

IllustratorYes

GenreSports & Recreation

AuthorPaul Schullery

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.3 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsMichigan Out-of-DoorsWhile I would always rather be on the water,Royal Coachmanmakes for fine reading when we can't be out there casting for trout., Finn RascoeSports AfieldInRoyal Coachman,Schullery takes on a difficult task....With his credentials, and his wry vignettes about his own river days, he accomplishes this feat with aplomb., Jeff MacGregorThe New York TimesSchullery is writer enough to pull you through most of the high arcana [of fly-fishing] and gets at the culture, the mechanics, and the evolution of the sport in an engaging and informative way., J. Taylor BuckleyUSA TodayAt once scholarly (at times, even scientific) and genuinely readable....A rare learning opportunity to those as serious about fly-fishing as many purport to be., James Prosekauthor ofJoe and Me: An Education in Fishing and FriendshipandTrout: An Illustrated HistoryInRoyal CoachmanPaul Schullery is at once an erudite emissary of the angle and consummate trout bum. And because not everyone can be both, we praise him as an American original., Dan DanbornArvada Community News(Denver, CO)This is the kind of book that fly-fishing enthusiasts will embrace, and which itself will embrace the casual fisherman., Robert WurmstedtRocky Mountain NewsFew sports enjoy a history or literature as old and rich as fly-fishing does, and Schullery is one of fly-fishing's favorite storytellers., Daniel ZantzingerDaily Camera(Boulder, CO)Schullery writes of his fellow human beings with a sense of redemption, persistent good will, and humor., Geoffrey NormanAmerican WayThe sport, like this book, is not about engineering but about beauty and other things we weren't meant to ever fully understand.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal799.1/24

Table Of ContentContents 1 All the Young Men with Fly Rods 2 The Fisherman's Chaucer 3 Early American Trout Fishing 4 Carlisle Mornings 5 Battenkill Summers 6 Dry-Fly Culture 7 Royal Coachman and Friends 8 Arts and Crafts 9 Hendricksons 10 Civilized Fishing 11 Occasions for Hope in the Hook and Bullet Press 12 Trout Family Values 13 Now I Are One 14 Cumberland Dreams Acknowledgments

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