any novels/book recomendations? fishing/outdo

[driftphish]

looking for a good book or two. any recomendations with a outdoorsy/fishing base or setting?

thanks

[E2]

I loved David James Duncan The River Why about the Trask or Alsea not sure--a coming of age and much more by an Oregon writer. Also for fun, any and everything by Patrick McManus. great stuff to read aloud to family. side splitting really. Enjoy. E2

[Silver Hilton]

The River Why, of course, as well as A River Runs Through It. Thomas McGuane's The Longest Silence (or something like that, don't have it in front of me). Anything by Pat McManus. Robert Traver's books.

[Corkie Monster]

Normon Macleans Young Men And Fire, Which is about a handfull of MT. Smoke Jumpers that died in the Man Gulch Fire in 1949. Or John N. Macleans Fire On The Mountain, Which is about The Prineville Hot Shots and others who died on the Storm King Mountain Fire in Colorado in 1994. Both books are about somthing that happened in the outdoors. I was with Prineville Hot Shots on another fire 3 days before they burned up, knew everyone of them :depressed: . both are good books.

CM

[fishnpray]

If you're interested in anything that has some hardcore literary value to it, you can always take a look at some of Hemmingway's short stories/ early periodical writing. He did a lot more that wasn't "Old Man..." and that didn't even sound like it. A collection of his old outdoorsey writings is put together and called "By-Line"

-luis

[Riverkeeper]

The Nick Adams Stories by Hemingway are great and include many fishing stories.

Also, check out Where Bigfoot Walks by Robert Michael Pyle. Non-fiction, but a great read about a local phenomenon.

I really enjoyed Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kinsolver.

If you haven't read The River Why, do it now. No NW fisherperson should be without this book. His others are fabulous as well.

[BigFishFever]

Not necessarily a fishing book, but Tom Bodett's Book "The End of the Road" is absolutely hilarious, it is a bunch of short stories that describes all the characters in a small Alaskan Town...

I reread it about once a year, and it is absolutely sidesplitting...Also if you can find it, he used to do a live radio show doing readings/storytelling....

Pick it up, its well worth it!

[Otolith]

If you want funny, try "Double Whammy" by Carl Hiassen. Makes lots of fun of southerners and bass fishing tournaments.

[FrogPond]

Try "The Loop" by Nicholas Evans. Evans does an extraordinary job with scenery description. I visualized every draw, ridgetop, & clearing. The setting is the Montana backcountry. His other books are good too, but I think "The Loop" is his best.

[Pete]

I'm currently reading "King of Fish: the thousand-year run of Salmon", by David R. Montgomery. Montgomery is a geo-morphologist. He traces how geological events since the last ice age have influenced the salmon of the northwest, how ancient forests (though fossil records) shaped the runs we see today and provides interesting historic background on the salmon runs that were lost in France and Germany. It's a new perspective on our own fish runs that seems immediately relevant to the decisions our fisheries management and land use agencies are making today.

[lost_sailor]

"Master and Commander", Patrick O'Brian.

And the 19 novels that follow it in the series.

It's not about fishing, but it's about sailing ... they catch a fish now and then ...

Other than that - all of Craig Lesley's books.

And all the others mentioned above.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Anything from Duncan (River Why, Brothers K, River Teeth)
John McPhee's "Founding Fish" about shad.

[monoman]

Any of Dana Lamb's fine books!

[driftphish]

wow, awesome response.

thanks so much fellas.

[pathetic novice]

"The Good Rain" and "Lasso the Wind" by Timothy Egan.

[blacktail]

If you're into flyfishing at all, John Gierach's books are very good.

Mike

[TundraIII]

I second the series of books by Patrick Obrien. "Master and Commander" was real good and I am currently reading "The Far Side of The World" and it is great too. The series is fiction but based on actual historical sailing ship battles. Read a couple of these and you'll be hooked. Just finished "The Missing" and "Cold Mountain", two thumbs up, excellent.

[E2]

Hey Driftphish; we ain't all fellas. :> E2

[Conn]

Just finished, "In the Land of White Death." It was a previously unknown story of a Russian Whaling ship, around 1912, marooned in arctic pack ice for TWO WINTERS before twelve set off south to find land. Two made it back alive after four months of travel. The ship and those left on board were never seen again. The story is directly from the leaders journal. Well written story of ultimate survival.

[boomer]

Conn, you might be intersted in "Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan...similar type of thing. Also "track of the bear" which is about a famous coast guard cutter that patrolled the alaskan waters and participated in an overland rescue mission of several whaling ships icebound out of barrow

[Firedog]

"Undaunted Courage" By Steven Ambrose, the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Excellent book, the descriptions of the land and the animals that they hunted is amazing. Then when they hit the columbia and the way they describe the river and all the fish.

"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" By Edmund Morris is another gret one. Roosevelt was a great outdoorsman. I just finished a biography on Captain James Cook. Very interesting. The ones Corkie Monster mentioned are both excellent books. I could recomend quite a few about firefighting.

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[Fishfeet]

"Rogue river feud" or "The silver horde" By Zane Grey. "A majority of Scoundrels" By Don Berry. FF.

[El-Kabong]

RiverKeeper,

what! no Palimino recommendation? thought it was your favorite!

EK