Storied Waters

Storied Waters
Author: David A. Van Wie
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 081176821X

Storied Waters chronicles the author’s six-week odyssey from Maine to Wisconsin and back to explore and fly fish America’s most storied waters and celebrate the writers and artists who made them famous. In a 5,000-mile odyssey covering over 50 locations in eight states, Van Wie follows and fishes in the footsteps of giants from Thoreau to Hemingway, Robert Traver to Corey Ford, Louise Dickinson Rich to Aldo Leopold to Winslow Homer and many more. Storied Waters provides a virtual roadmap through 200 years of fly-fishing literature and a literal roadmap—complete with local fishing tips—to the hallowed waters of our sport. In each chapter, informative sidebars detail fishing spots, best times to fish, major hatches, and other intel. Storied Waters is a grand vicarious adventure, driving the backroads for weeks at a time exploring beautiful places, and meeting fascinating people who share a common interest. With an easy, conversational writing voice enhanced with spectacular photographs, Van Wie relates an eclectic mix of travel narrative, natural history, and fishing tips and advice, as well as a deep (but sometimes humorously irreverent) appreciation for the writers who have created such a rich legacy of stories about fishing over the past 200 years.

Trout Dreams

Trout Dreams
Author: James Merritt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2000
Genre: Fishers
ISBN: 1586670115

This book is a collection of profiles of many of the big names in the fly fishing world of our day.

BROKEN—LOVE AND MURDER IN THE ADIRONDACKS

BROKEN—LOVE AND MURDER IN THE ADIRONDACKS
Author: J. E. Irvin
Publisher: The New Atlantian Library
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1955036276

Sexy, Fat-paced, and intense, this romantic suspense novel will keep you up all night reading! Riley Marie Finn lives a stolid, conventional life, every detail planned and unexpected and dull. But when her boyfriend dumps her and the school district where she teaches releases her due to budget concerns, Riley’s whole world turns upside down. Jilted and jobless and determined to change her fate, she heads to the Adirondacks in search of summer employment, where she ends up lost. Rescued by a broody forest ranger who directs her to the hamlet of Wanakena, she is hired in place of a woman whose dead body is discovered at the very place Riley appeared. Josh Waylon is a forest ranger haunted by the ghost of his unfaithful wife, the first victim of the Wilderness Strangler one year ago. With a battered heart and a cloud of suspicion hanging over him, he swears off human contact until Riley invades his territory. Broken and desperate and unable to resist their mutual attraction, Riley and Josh join forces to flush out the ‘Wilderness Strangler’ and clear their names. Can their growing feelings for each other heal the damage of their past lives? Can they solve the dual murders before one of them becomes the next victim? J.E. Irvin is a career educator and an award-winning author. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a variety of print and online publications. Happiest when canoeing in the Northwoods or hiking forest paths, Irvin and her husband reside in Springboro, Ohio, where they share their life with two crazy cats, a resident beaver in the pond behind their home, and a variety of wildlife in the prairie to the west.