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There was a time that I didn't fish , writes Ted Leeson in his introduction to this stunning first book, but I cannot remember it. Thirty-five years ago, I toddled off to Turtle Creek with a cane pole and worms and returned with a six-inch smallmouth and a monkey on my back. I ate the bass and have been feeding the monkey ever since . With wry humor and rare insight, The Habit of Rivers tells the story of Leeson's passion for rivers, trout, and fly fishing, and his attempts to understand their remarkable sustaining power. Drawing on his experiences as a newcomer to the Pacific Northwest - the land of unceasing seasons - he looks beneath the surface of fly fishing to explore questions that engage most fishermen: What is the strange gravity of a trout stream? What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited response? Above all, The Habit of Rivers is a book about ways of seeing the wonderfully textured world that emanates from a river. Despite its reliance on the line , Leeson writes, fly fishing is not linear. It is radial and weblike. At the center is a rising trout, and millimeters above his nose is the fly. From it, paths trace outward . . . just as far as you wish to go . In pursuing these paths, Leeson finds everything from salmon, steelhead, and trout, to driftboats, art, insects, gravity, death, philosophy, books, fly tying, and microbreweries - and links them together with an intelligence that is provocative, witty, and illuminating. What emerges is a brilliantly original book about a certain vision of fishing, and fishing as a certain habit of vision, about seasons as spaces and landscapes as times, about riversthat express interior geographies as much as exterior ones. The Habit of Rivers begins with a deep respect for trout and trout streams, and ends in wisdom earned by hard and faithful attention to the natural world. AUTHOR: Ted Leeson
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | Everything in Its Path by Kai T. Erikson
Description not available.Recounts the devastating personal and communal effects of the 1972 Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, disaster on a tightly knit Appalachian community suddenly uprooted and dispersed. Bibliogs AUTHOR: Kai T. Erikson
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Fire in Their Eyes by Karen Magnuson Beil
This look at the work of the men and women who fight forest fires covers such topics as the rigorous training required to become a wilderness fire fighter. Illustrated with color photographs. AUTHOR: Karen Magnuson Beil
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Prairie Keepers by Marcy Houle
The author spent three summers studying hawks in northeastern Oregon, and her recounting of the experience combines vivid nature writing with telling ecological observations and some musings on her personal life. AUTHOR: Marcy Houle
PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Teach Yourself Visually Digital Video by Jinjer L. Simon
Description not available.Discusses such topics as digital video equipment, working with lighting and sound, planning a video, editing, transferring footage to a computer, transitions, special effects, publishing, and creating a video disc. AUTHOR: Jinjer L. Simon
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Plague of Frogs by William Souder
This probing work of environmental journalism details the discovery of severely deformed frogs in Minnesota in 1995, and documents the research by state and federal agencies to determine the cause of this phenomenon. This cautionary book warns of the enormous impact these deformities could have on the human, as well as the amphibian, population. AUTHOR: William Souder
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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