Small in the Eye of a River

These unique essays and stories celebrate a life in which fly fishing is the central ingredient: from the magical qualities of a blue-dun neck to the intermingling of love, music, fly fishing, and the haunting life of rivers. All nine tales and reflections are characterized by a restless, searching quality, but each registers a unique point of view. In some cases Mele speculates about the elusive properties of the blue-dun necks, as he searches for some ultimate shade and texture, some way to define their delicacy; at other times he seeks the perfect bamboo fly rod, one that will meet all of his exacting dry-fly demands. At times the world of fly fishing leads him to explore the life of dose friends like Dan Brenan, or old masters such as Theodore Gordon; and at other times that same world becomes inextricable from the need to protect rivers, or from his love and practice of music.

ISBN 1558219633   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781558219632 (What's this?)   Pages 160 Publisher Globe Pequot Press   Volumes 1 Imprint The Lyons Press   Weight (grammes) 340 Format Hardback   Published in Guilford Publication date 01 Dec 1999   Height (mm) 216 Writer of introduction Nick Lyons   Width (mm) 146 Library of Congress SH441.M446   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 799.124   Academic level General

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