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The Snowfly (Paperback)
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The Snowfly (Paperback)
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List price R406
Loot Price R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
You Save R70 (17%)
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The Snowfly is a spellbinding novel of suspense, international
intrigue, and fly fishing. The holy grail that burns at its core is
the snowfly, a legendary insect -enormous, white, and exceedingly
rare - that attracts trout of such size that they couldn't possibly
exist in the world as we know it. But in The Snowfly, such things
can and do exist.
Bowie Rhodes is a UPI reporter and a fly fisherman of extraordinary
talent. He learns of the myth of the snowfly early in his
childhood. Legend has it that the giant snowfly hatches every seven
to ten years, never on the same river twice. It brings to rise only
trout that strain the imagination: trout that are so huge they
would have to have lived forty years or more; trout so wily that
they never allow themselves to be caught - or even seen; trout so
hungry for this fly that they will risk exposure to rise for the
hatch. The snowfly is the sacred quest of only the most obsessed
trout hunters, and has been seen by no living man or woman,
existing only in myth and in a lost manuscript. Rhodes's reporting
brings him to the extremes of humanity - in the jungles of Vietnam,
in the labyrinth of Brezhnev's Soviet Union, in a poisoned Canadian
wasteland of uranium mines. His hunt for the manuscript takes him
deep into his own heart of darkness.
The Snowfly is a richly imaginative and sensual novel. The world
Heywood creates is broader and more wild, with more mystery lurking
beneath the surface waters, than our own. Or is it? The Snowfly
makes it all seem gloriously possible.
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