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    A River Never Sleeps

    By Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane and Louis Darling

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    A month-by-month chronicle of the fishing life, and a classic of angling literature from “one of the 20th century’s most gifted writers” on the subject (The New York Times).
     
    As Steve Raymond proclaims in his introductory comments, A River Never Sleeps is “one of the greatest books about fishing ever written.” Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it; its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great sport.
     
    Month by month, he takes you from river to river, down at last to the saltwater and the sea: in January, searching for the steelhead in the dark, cold water; in May, fishing for bright, sea-run cutthroats; and on to the chilly days of October and the majestic run of spawning salmon. All the great joys of angling are here: the thrill of fishing during a thunderstorm, the sight of a river in freshet or calm and hushed, the suspense of a skillful campaign to capture some half-glimpsed trout or salmon of extraordinary size, and the excitement of playing and landing a momentous fish.
     
    First published in 1946, A River Never Sleeps is one of the enduring classics of angling. “There are loads of good fishing stories, with the usual attributes, but with, too, the very sound and smell and feel of the streams, the lakes, the woods, and the seasons” (Kirkus Reviews).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 21, 2014
    ISBN9781632201096
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    Roderick L. Haig-Brown

    Roderick L. Haig-Brown (1908-1976) was a Canadian writer, magistrate and conservationist. A prolific writer, he is the author of twenty-eight books and hundreds of articles, essays and poems. Some of the titles include Saltwater Summer (Governor General Award Winner, 1948), A River Never Sleeps, and Fisherman’s Summer. In recognition of his contribution to Canadian environmental literature, the Haig-Brown name has been gifted to a national park near Kamloops, a Canada Council sponsored writer-in-residence retreat near Campbell River, and a mountain on Vancouver Island.

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