206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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On the surface, fishing is all about casting, catching and communing with nature, but on a deeper level, the sport is filled with mysteries and contradictions. Why do people fish? How does a desire to return to nature go hand in hand with high-tech gadgetry? How is it possible to see other people's fishing as despoiling nature but not one's own? What does the long and complex history of the sport... Read more
1 Fly-Fishing for Authenticity 2 The Taste for Trout in Early Modem Europe 3 The Frontier of Fly-Fishing 4 The Gentle American Angler 5 Gentlemen Prefer Trout 6 Trout Limited 7 Kissing Trout 8 The Ironic Anglers 9 Jedediah and the Fat Man
Biography
William Washabaugh Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
