A Place on the Water : An Angler's Reflections on Home

A Place on the Water : An Angler's Reflections on Home

More than a collection of fishing stories, A Place on the Water is a passionate and eloquent exploration of subjects with broad appeal: love of land and water, informed and unsentimental appreciation of nature, and outrage at changes that threaten to obliterate places we can no longer afford to take for granted. Jerry Dennisâ€™s sparkling prose and Glenn Wolffâ€™s captivating illustrations transport us to a world we recognize from childhood: a place of limitless range and possibility, shimmering with life, where the very next cast will be the one that hooks something enormous and wonderful.

PRAISE:
â€œA Place on the Water is a collection of lyrical, haunting essays, set in northern Michigan. Many are about fishing, but that does not necessarily mean they are to be enjoyed strictly by anglers. Hemingwayâ€™s Big Two-Hearted River was about fishing, too, but can be read for pleasure if you have never wet a lineâ€¦Dennis covers a lot of ground, then; but there is throughout the book a kind of constant tone, as sharp and precise as the scent of cedar. And it stays with the reader long after he has put down the book.â€ ~Geoffrey Norman, author of American Way

â€œEloquent essays about the authorâ€™s adventures exploring his love of land, water and nature in his beloved Michiganâ€¦Enjoyable reading with beautiful, evocative illustrations.â€ ~Sports Afield

"Jerry Dennis is one of a handful of superb writer who love angling deeply and write memoirs full of warmth, eloquence, and wit. A Place on the Water is a book of many robustâ€”and fragileâ€”miracles." ~Nick Lyons, Author of Spring Creek

"This is a book that Will remind you why you've always loved fishing canoeing, and all the other things you can only do on the water." ~John Gierach, author of Even Brook Trout Get the Blues

â€œDennis is a gifted writer whose best stories evoke a true â€˜spirit of place,â€™ to use a Lawrence Durrell phrase. Like fellow Michigan writer Jim Harrison, Edward Abbey, or Durrell, whose works of fiction and non-fiction would bring to life the places they wrote about, Dennisâ€™ Michigan springs to life. You can almost smell the musky riverbanks or hear the buzzing mosquitoesâ€¦You donâ€™t need to know anything about fishing to enjoy this wonderful book.â€ ~Silent Sports Magazine

â€œMy favorite things are a single phrase: â€œIt felt like the hand of the earth came up and grabbed my lineâ€; and a profile, the best one Iâ€™ve ever seen, of the great fly-fishing writer Robert Traverâ€¦ [This book] is a textbook demonstration of how loyalty to a place can produce a fascinating body of work that will be read far outside that place.â€ ~Fly Rod and Reel Magazine

â€œâ€¦invites and inspires us to explore nature, to reflect more on our time outdoors, and never to squander a moment doing things half-heartedâ€ ~Jackson Citizen-Patriot

â€œMichigan is lucky to have and have had such clear voices speaking for it as John Voelker and Jerry Dennis.â€ ~Grayâ€™s Sporting Journal

â€œStrong, original and truthfulâ€¦A sparkling, autobiographical collection of stories that will draw you into a shared sense of time and place.â€ ~Grand Rapids Press

â€œA Place on the Water belongs with the small handful of classic books about fishing and the out-of-doors. But of even more importanceâ€¦it brilliantly and magically evokes small joys and life-changing epiphaniesâ€¦â€ ~Flint Journal

â€œA great book to curl up with beside the fireplace. I think it will be considered a masterpiece for years to come.â€ ~Delaware Journal
Country USA
Manufacturer DCA, Inc.
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-11-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	DCA, Inc.
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-11-15
Format	Kindle eBook

A Place on the Water : An Angler's Reflections on Home

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