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The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told - by Lamar Underwood (Paperback)

The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told - by  Lamar Underwood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told contains 28 of the best fishing tales ever put on paper, including stories by Zane Grey, Ed Zern, Nick Lyons, Earnest Hemingway, and many others.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told is sure to ignite recollections of your own angling experiences as well as send your imagination adrift. In this compilation of tales you will read about two kinds of places, the ones you have been to before and love to remember, and the places you have only dreamed of going, and would love to visit. Whether you prefer to fish rivers, estuaries, or beaches, this book will take you to all kinds of water, where you'll experience catching every kind of fish. Read on as some of the sport's most talented writers recount their personal memories of catching bass, trout, bluefish marlin, tuna, and more. Explore the Pacific with Zane Grey, as he fights a 1,000-pound blue marlin, or listen as A.J. McClane explains just what it really means to be an angler. Take a step back in time when you read Ernie Schwiebert's tale of fishing a remote lake in Michigan, when he was still only a young boy. Each of these stories, selected because of its intrinsic literary worth, reinforces the unique personal connection that fishing creates between people and nature.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told will ignite recollections of your own angling experiences as well as send your imagination adrift. In this compilation of tales you will read about two kinds of places: the ones you have been to before and love to remember, and the places you have only dreamed of going, and would love to visit. This book takes you to all kinds of water, where you experience catching every kind of fish.Read on as some of the sport's most talented writers recount their personal memories of catching bass, trout, bluefish, marlin, tuna, and more. Explore the Pacific with Zane Grey, as he fights a thousand-pound blue marlin, or listen as A. J. McClane explains just what it really means to be an angler. With contributions from: John Gierach, Ted Leeson, Ernest Schwiebert, Robert Traver, Thomas McGuane, John N. Cole, Ed Zern, Ernest Hemingway, Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Christopher Camuto, and Joe Brooks.Each of these stories, selected because of its intrinsic literary worth, reinforces the unique personal connection that fishing creates between man and nature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial recognition. Such a series is "The Greatest (fill in the blank) Stories Ever Told", anthologies that should win places on many bedside tables. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading." --The Lexington County Chronicle<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. The numerous books he has edited include Tales of the Mountain Men, The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, Survival Stories, and War Stories and the novel On Dangerous Ground. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey.

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