ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). 1994 1st UK edition. 8vo (158 x 236mm). Ppxii,178. Not illustrated. White cloth-backed boards, red spine titled in cream. Slight use, spotting to top edge else very good in like dust-wrapper. "Brilliant, easily the best book on the fly-fishing passion in a generation or two. .dead earnest and wildly funny all at once." (Christopher Camuto). Ted Leeson, newly settled in the Pacific Northwest, describes the adventure of exploring his new territory, and what he found. A great read for its own sake, and doubly great for anglers even theoretically prospecting the Pacific Northwest. Chapters include: A moveable feast; Anchors; Foxes and hedgehogs; The thing with feathers; Feed that Jones; The farthest distance between two points; Stoned again; Thy rod and thy radish; Down to zero; Seeing the elephant; Everything that rises, everything that flies; Harvests. .

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Title: THE HABIT OF RIVERS: REFLECTIONS ON TROUT STREAMS AND FLY FISHING. By Ted Leeson.
Publisher: Merlin Unwin. Ludlow, Shropshire. 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1873674155
ISBN 13: 9781873674154
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: new

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Tells the story of the author's passion for rivers, trout, and fly fishing.

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There was a time that I didn't fish, writes Ted Leeson in his introduction to this stunning first book, 'but I cannot remember it. Thirty-five years ago I toddled off to Turtle Creek with a cane pole and worms and returned with a six-inch smallmouth and a monkey on my back. I ate the bass and have been feeding the monkey ever since.' With wry humor and rare insight, The Habit of Rivers tells the story of Leeson's passion for rivers, trout, and fly fishing, and his experiences as a newcomer to the Pacific Northwest - 'the land of unceasing seasons' - he looks beneath the surface of fly fishing to explore questions that engage most fishermen: 'What is the strange gravity of a trout stream? What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited response?' Above all, The Habit of Rivers is a book about ways of seeing the wonderfully textured world that emanates from a river. 'Despite its reliance on the line,' Leeson writes, 'fly fishing is not linear. It is radial and weblike. At the center is a rising trout, and millimeters above his nose is the fly. From it, paths trace outward . . . just as far as you wish to go.' In pursuing these paths, Leeson finds everything from salmon, steelhead, and trout, to driftboats, art, insects, gravity, death, philosophy, books, fly tying, and microbreweries - and links them together with an intelligence that is provocative, witty, and illuminating. What emerges is a brilliantly original book about a certain vision of fishing, and fishing as a certain habit of vision, about seasons as spaces and landscapes as times, about rivers that express interior geographies as much as exterior ones. The Habit of Rivers begins with a deep respect for trout and trout streams, and ends in wisdom earned by hard and faithful attention to the natural world. (6 1/4 X 9 1/4, 196 pages)

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