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Life as a River - by Michael Marx (Paperback)

Life as a River - by  Michael Marx (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This unique collection of stories and essays shows us how rivers can serve as a metaphor for life and shape it in reality. Fun, enlightening, and inspiring, Life as a River is well worth the price of eight artificial flies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this unique collection of stories and essays, <em>Life as a River: Memories & Reflections of a Die-Hard Fly Fisher and Eco-Activist</em> shows us how rivers can serve as a metaphor for life and shape it in reality. If you want to know what Western rivers to fish and how, this book gives you a creel full of tips. If back stories on the environmental campaigns that transformed major corporations intrigue you, who better to tell them than who Michael Conroy, the author of Branded! and former Senior Program Officer at the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has called the father of environmental corporate campaigns. And if you want to explore how rivers play a role in love, war, and spirituality, read this book. Fun, enlightening, and inspiring, Life as a River is well worth the price of eight artificial flies.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>One of the best strategists the environmental movement has ever had and a die-hard fly fisher, in Life as a River Michael Marx sagely explains how the strange passion called fly fishing is: a hat tip to our forebears as a ceremonial hunt; an obsession with gorgeous beings from another realm; and an immersion, baptism-like, into the wildness we love so much that it compels us to defend it. That, in a nutshell, is Michael Marx. And in this book he has, with love and candor, told the secrets of his temple." John Passacantando, Former Executive Director, Greenpeace US</p><br>

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