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Author Haig-Brown, Roderick, 1908-1976.

Title To know a river : a Haig-Brown reader / edited by Valerie Haig-Brown ; introduction by Thomas McGuane.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Lyons & Burford, [1996]
©1996

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  799.12 HAI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  799.12 TO    Check Shelf
Description xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents To know a river... -- The nature of estuaries -- Summer defined -- from Thoughts while fishing -- April (a river never sleeps) -- September -- Blackhole -- Buttle Lake -- from On the water & in the mail -- Garden party day -- The beaverkill -- Nimpkish River -- Patterns and problems -- Perfect morning -- The beaches -- from Big fish and fresh water -- The day everything happened -- Speed and stamina -- Steelhead and the dry fly--further notes -- An ideal stream -- The unexpected fish -- The fish by the cedar stump -- Poisson blew--the flower of fishes -- The Laja River -- The start of the South--the Cautin River -- The Tolten -- from Water of Liucura and Trancura -- The beach of the deer -- The last river -- Drawn by the current -- Fall defined -- The death of the salmon -- from At winter's edge -- from The art of fishing -- Fly types -- On casting -- The new rod -- The maculate purist -- The secret life -- Thoughts under water -- from Return of the salmon -- Recognizing birds -- April (measure of the year) -- June -- Trees -- August--the big fir -- Northward geese -- Family sortie -- Children -- The people's right to good fishing -- Less time between bites -- Fishing and the common man -- Putting fish back -- What is good?
Subject Fly fishing.
Trout.
Salmon.
Fishing -- Philosophy.
Added Author Haig-Brown, Valerie.
ISBN 1558214992 cloth
9781558214996 cloth
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