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Since 1970, there has been an overall decline in wildlife
populations in the order of 52%. Freshwater species populations
have declined by 76%; species populations in Central and South
America have declined by 83%; and in the Indo-Pacific by 67%. These
are often not complete extinctions, but large declines in the
numbers of animals in each species, as well as habitat loss. This
presents us with a tremendous opportunity, before it is too late to
rescue many species. This book documents the present state of
wildlife on a global scale, using a taxonomic approach, and serving
as a one stop place for people involved in conservation to be able
to find out what is in decline, and the success stories that have
occurred to bring back species from the brink of extinction -
primarily due to conservation management techniques - as models for
what we might achieve in the future.
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no
clear line between religion and fly fishing," to the last, "I am
haunted by waters," "A River Runs Through It" is an American
classic.
Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, "A River Runs
Through It" has established itself as one of the most moving
stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions
of life along Montana's Big Blackfoot River and its near magical
blend of fly fishing with the troubling affections of the heart.
This handsome edition is designed and illustrated by Barry Moser.
There are thirteen two-color wood engravings.
"A masterpiece. . . . This is more than stunning fiction: It is a
lyric record of a time and a life, shining with Maclean's special
gift for calling the reader's attention to arts of all kinds--the
arts that work in nature, in personality, in social intercourse, in
fly-fishing."--Kenneth M. Pierce, "Village Voice"
"Wise, witty, wonderful, Maclean spins his tales, casts his flies,
fishes the rivers and woods for what he remembers of his youth in
the Rockies."--Barbara Bannon, "Publishers Weekly"
"Maclean's book is surely destined to be one of those rare memoirs
that can be called a masterpiece. . . . Earthy, whimsical,
authoritative, wise; it touches the heart without blushing and
traces lasting images for the eye. . . . This book is a gem."--Nick
Lyons, "Fly-Fisherman"
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It
to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One
editor, so the story goes, replied, "It has trees in it." Forty
years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great
American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the
most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a
long life of often surprising rapture for fly fishing, for the
woods and their people, and for the interlocked beauty of life and
art A River Runs through It has over the decades established itself
as a classic of the American West. This new edition will introduce
a fresh audience to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated
emotional insights. Elegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It
includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, whose film adaptation of
River turns twenty-five in 2017. Based on Maclean's own experiences
as a young man, the two novellas and short story it contains are
set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a
world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but
also one rich in the pleasures of fly fishing, logging, cribbage,
and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales
express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for
the earth as it goes by." Though he grew up in the first decades of
the twentieth century in the western Rockies working summers in
logging camps and for the US Forest Service and cultivating a
lifelong passion for the dry fly it was only at the age of seventy,
as a retired English professor, that Norman Maclean discovered what
he was meant to do: write. Moving and profound, A River Runs
through It honors the literary legacy of a man who improbably gave
voice to an essential corner of the American soul. "I am haunted by
waters," Maclean writes at the close of A River Runs through It.
So, now, are we all.
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It
to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One
editor, so the story goes, replied, "It has trees in it." Forty
years later, the title novella is widely recognized as one of the
great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one
of the most beloved writers of our time. Maclean's later triumph,
Young Men and Fire, has over the decades also established itself as
a classic of the American West. And with this
twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, a fresh audience will be
introduced to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated emotional
insights. A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men
and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of
fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the
Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in
the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three
of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths
for forty years, in his last decades Maclean put together the
scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire,
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This
twenty-fifth-anniversary edition includes a powerful new foreword
by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time.
Though he grew up in the first decades of the twentieth century in
the western Rockies working summers in logging camps and for the US
Forest Service and cultivating a lifelong passion for the dry fly
it was only at the age of seventy, as a retired English professor,
that Norman Maclean discovered what he was meant to do: write.
Moving and profound, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy
of a man who improbably gave voice to an essential corner of the
American soul.
Since 1970, there has been an overall decline in wildlife
populations in the order of 52%. Freshwater species populations
have declined by 76%; species populations in Central and South
America have declined by 83%; and in the Indo-Pacific by 67%. These
are often not complete extinctions, but large declines in the
numbers of animals in each species, as well as habitat loss. This
presents us with a tremendous opportunity, before it is too late to
rescue many species. This book documents the present state of
wildlife on a global scale, using a taxonomic approach, and serving
as a one stop place for people involved in conservation to be able
to find out what is in decline, and the success stories that have
occurred to bring back species from the brink of extinction -
primarily due to conservation management techniques - as models for
what we might achieve in the future.
In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts:
fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role
he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame
and critical acclaim - as well as the devotion of readers
worldwide. Though the 1976 collection "A River Runs Through It and
Other Stories" was the only book Maclean published in his lifetime,
it was an unexpected success, and the moving family tragedy of the
title novella - based largely on Maclean's memories of his
childhood home in Montana - has proved to be one of the most
enduring American stories ever written. "The Norman Maclean Reader"
is a wonderful addition to Maclean's celebrated oeuvre. Bringing
together previously unpublished materials with incidental writings
and selections from his more famous works, the Reader will serve as
the perfect introduction for readers new to Maclean, while offering
longtime fans new insight into his life and career. In this
evocative collection, Maclean as both a writer and a man becomes
evident. Perceptive, intimate essays deal with his career as a
teacher and a literary scholar, as well as the wealth of family
stories for which Maclean is famous. Complete with a generous
selection of letters, as well as excerpts from a 1986 interview,
"The Norman Maclean Reader" provides a fully fleshed-out portrait
of this much admired author, showing us a writer fully aware of the
nuances of his craft, and a man as at home in the academic
environment of the University of Chicago as in the quiet mountains
of his beloved Montana. Multifarious and moving, the works
collected in "The Norman Maclean Reader" serve as both a summation
and a celebration, giving readers a chance once again to hear one
of American literature's most distinctive voices.
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