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Fishing the River of Time

Hardcover

Published: 22nd February 2012
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At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. This trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place with his grandson. As Tony teaches Ned the patient art of fly-fishing, a lifetime of memories, thoughts and stories unspool in peaceful reflections by the water's edge. Fishing the River of Time

"A wise and wonderful book flowing with love for the life of the Earth - human, animal, the great woods, and the deep slow pulse of rock and water. Being about 'something more important than fish,' Tony Taylor's book will delight all who angle for the great and wild things, above all beauty and truth." - Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress. "A superb mix of natural history, biography - and fishing. Not to be missed." - Tim Flannery.

Rivers search for the sea and each drop of the magic gets trapped on its journey, moving against the flow at times, before it fulfils its destiny. It is then drawn into the clouds, it rains or snows and the cycle starts over again. More than any water anywhere else, the water of a young and wild western Canadian river appeared at a critical time in my life, changed a lot of my earlier thinking, and helped show me the way.

ISBN: 9781921922015
ISBN-10: 192192201X
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 224
Published: 22nd February 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 16.5