Notes from the San Juans
Subtitle: thoughts about fly fishing and home
By: Steven J. Meyers
Series: The Pruett series
Publisher: WestWinds Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780871089700
Subjects: Description and travel; Homes and haunts; Fly fishing; Trout fishing; Social life and customs; Biography; NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains; NATURE / Essays; SPORTS & RECREATION / Fishing
Description: "This book, more than anything else, is a book about place. Centered on the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, a range of jagged peaks inhabited by the sometimes equally jagged people of small mountain towns, it is a book about the search for a place to call home, after other homes have been wrecked. Steve Meyers, a transplanted Easterner, speaks for tens of thousands of younger people who have searched for a way of life outside of the homogenizing pressures of contemporary American society. His search led him to the San Juans and he writes with extraordinary warmth and depth about a way of life that has become increasingly rare and a region that has managed to maintain its startling beauty and idiosyncrasies; and he writes movingly about a father who vanished and about personal loss and about triumph. Throughout the book, wild trout and colorful people appear as comfortable residents of this relatively remote region in which the act of fly fishing seems as natural as eating and sleeping. Ultimately Notes from the San Juans is the story of a man who has been seduced by the pleasures of the mountains and the joys of fly fishing and bright mountain streams--but it is also very much a story of human values and courage and hard-won joy"--
Notes: Originally published: New York : Lyons & Burford, 1992.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Coming Home; title: Jewels, Surprises, and Some Reasons; title: Why I Fish; title: Three-Score and Ten; title: The Cannonball Cast and the Sick; title: Frog Lure; title: Natives; title: Tailwaters and Homewaters; title: Damn Trout; title: Dolores Is Still Dancing; title: Drifting; title: Smythe; title: A Hat Full of Gold; title: Who Owns the River?; title: Lost Souls; title: Old Timers; title: Moving Downriver.