{"product_id":"river-songs-moments-of-wild-wonder-in-fly-fishing","title":"River Songs: Moments of Wild Wonder in Fly Fishing","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Steve Duda, in \u003ci\u003eRiver Songs: Moments of Wild Wonder in Fly Fishing\u003c\/i\u003e, his first collection of essays, reminds us with attentive care to language and gloriously boisterous storytelling, why we keep coming back to rivers...\" -- \u003ci\u003eFlyfisherman Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\"You won’t forget these stories. They’ll make you think about your relationship with fishing and perhaps make you look at it in a different way.\"  -- \u003ci\u003eFly Culture Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\"...this is the kind of writing--the kind of flyfishing writing, especially--that you simply will not find anywhere else, for the simple reason that no one can tell a story the way that Steve Duda tells a story.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Fly Fish Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eIndependent Publisher Book Award Silver Winner in Nature\u003cbr\u003e\r\nForeword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Essays\u003cbr\u003e\r\nBanff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003ci\u003eRiver Songs\u003c\/i\u003e is rich with bracing, authentic, generous stories--writing that revels in language and spirit. Avoiding most of fly fishing’s clichés--the romantic elegies, the Moby-Dick-like conquests, the play-by-play detailing a \"victory\" over a fish--\r\nSteve Duda instead offers pieces that breathe lived experience, reveal vulnerabilities, and convey a broad perspective of what it means to have \"a long run with a tight crew.\" Duda is interested in what has been learned out there on the river: what is it about this \"ridiculous activity\" that connects us to this planet, makes us human, gives us hope?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiver Songs\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the in-between moments and the unexpected revelations--awe, fear, frustration, doubt, joy--that \r\nare as much a part of fishing as tying knots and chucking flies. Readers ride along with Duda in battered pickup trucks, fish \r\n\"between jobs,\" look longingly at unfished famous rivers while touring with a country-punk band, and wonder how a fishing trip led to getting a tooth pulled while being surrounded by trash-talking friends. They will find beauty, discovery, heartbreak, good dogs, and the wonder of nature within the expanse of Northwest landscapes and beyond.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46815088738514,"sku":"9781680517019","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46815088771282,"sku":"cb1aada5-3a8b-3019-92e8-f4f420b2f476","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_dfe3c202-060a-4454-935c-1cc9c3d9a1e3.jpg?v=1775574640","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/river-songs-moments-of-wild-wonder-in-fly-fishing","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}