An artfully written series of essays in which free-lance
writer/photographer Camuto (Sierra, Trout, etc.) weaves a seamless
collage of fly-fishing, natural history, and American history
through his observations of the Blue Ridge mountains. Camuto's
descriptions of trout, fishing, and trout flies are vivid and
should appeal to fishing beginners and experts and nonfishermen
alike. For example, his description of tying flies doubles as a
lyric metaphor for and mimesis of spring in the Appalachians.
Camuto is a fine natural historian, and his nondidactic discussion
of the area's native flowers, trees, and geology from the Ice Age
to the present is reason enough to enjoy his book. An imagined
conversation with early 18th-century naturalist John Bartram - who
explored the Blue Ridge when the Cherokee Indians, elk, and
catamounts were still present - is fascinating. However, Camuto
makes it clear that all is not paradisaical in this mountain Eden.
He discusses the 1964 Wilderness Act, which saved the area from
timbering mining, and railroads, only to have it undergo continued
destruction by airborne sulfur emissions; in a cogent description
of the acid rain disaster, he notes how the Reagan Administration
attempted to suppress the 1981 Academy of Sciences Report on
widespread damage to the aquatic ecosystem; and he shows how the
1984 Virginia Wilderness Bill was a Trojan horse that created
56,000 acres of wilderness, but released back to the Forest Service
157,000 acres for "mixed-use management" (read: road building and
logging for profit). Just as Thoreau addressed more than simply
building a cabin in the woods, here Camuto casts with a sure hand
beyond fly-fishing into deeper, more profound literary pools.
(Kirkus Reviews)
This new edition of A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge offers readers a
chance to revisit a contemporary classic of fly fishing literature,
a book that takes the reader through a year of fly fishing
backcountry mountain streams from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Camuto's
love of trout fishing is wedded to a keen awareness of both history
and nature. Although the author has fished for trout from Oregon to
Russia, he lives in the shadow of the Blue Ridge and still
considers its trout streams to be the best rivers he has ever
fished.
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