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| The Habit of Rivers: Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing | 
 enlarge | Author: Ted Leeson
Creator: John Gierach
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 314016
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1592289541
Dewey Decimal Number: 799
EAN: 9781592289547
ASIN: 1592289541
Publication Date: November 1, 2006
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Product Description
The story of a passion for rivers, trout, and fly fishing, and their sustaining power.
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 Too many metaphors, not enough fish. June 10, 2003
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
I can't read this book. If you're going to write about fishing, write about it honestly and tell us why you love it, don't start out with a web of "points of fixity" "dim inferences" "sources of hidden significance". Hemingway once said if you know something truly, and write about it truly, it will represent all things. I can't give this book a fair review, because after just reading Robert Traver's yarns, the styloe of this one just irritates me.
 Must reading for all flyfishers and naturalists December 27, 1996
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
With the poetic delivery of Maclean, and the naturalistvision of Thoreau, Ted Leeson paints a beautiful,and sometimes comical,mosiac of fly fishing the Northwest. As I read this book I am reminded that the most noble and rewarding aspect of my sport is not the mere catching of fish, but it is the beautiful & mystical arena in which we are privileged to practice it.
Read it. June 17, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Mr. Leeson's book is about flyfishing, but it is not your typical flyfishing book. It is much more well-written and insightful than anything else written on the subject. Read it; you will not be disppointed.
One of the Best Modern FF Lit Books June 23, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well writtne and thoughtful, Leeson's book, along with his splendid "Jerusalem Creek", are just what the brotherhood of angling literature looks foward to - On teh same Shelf with Thomas McGuane, Bill Barich, Harry Middleton, Chris Camuto, R. Haig Brown, Russell Chatham - well, you get the idea. Highly recommended
Read slowly, it speaks to your soul. February 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I received this book from my son. He knows me as well as anyone. He knows I'm struggling with my "fishing experience" and looking for direction. I don't need to catch the biggest fish or experience the newest destinations. I need to fish. I need to fly fish. Ted Leeson helped tell me why. This book spoke to my soul. It corrected my direction. I have read many fishing books, some technical some just good stories. The first time, and I'll read it again, I read this book I realized early on that I needed to read it slowly, introspectively. I was in this book. Mr. Leeson spoke to me. He answered my direction question when he said, "In the end, to fish well is to cultivate an arrangement of time and place, of circumstance and perspective. We arrange ourselves into the arrangement, and if the collusion is careful and lucky, we reap a kind of enclosed moment of some sharply felt beauty and significance." The Habit of Rivers is a special book and I recommend it to any fly fisher looking for direction or confirmation.
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