Misadventures and Fishing Tales
Misadventures and Fishing Tales

Author: Kelly Bruning

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 0557139538

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A humorous collection of true short stories written by a female Boston transplant now living in the northern Michigan great outdoors. This book promises a lot of laughs about outdoor misadventures. Interwoven in the tales are humor, mischief, and a few life lessons. Join the scene as the author describes the crisp morning air and the serenity of surrounding woodlands on an ice fishing outing. Picture Michigan's mighty Mackinac Bridge as its twin white towers stand tall, welcoming visitors to the Upper Peninsula. Put yourself among the crowd of the local pub waiting to view the braggart's trophy fish, which unfortunately was eaten by the neighborhood wild cats! The author intertwines misadventure in the great outdoors with an appreciation for nature, putting readers in another scene while also leaving them with a laugh or two along the way.The author will donate $1.00 of her proceeds to fight Multiple Sclerosis. By purchasing this book, you have joined the author in fighting this disease.

My Life Was This Big
My Life Was This Big

Author: Lefty Kreh

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1602393591

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Kreh, the Johnny Cash of fly-fishing writers ("Baltimore Sun"), takes his readers on an angling journey through the last half-century. He relates tales of fishing expeditions with Fidel Castro as well as solo battles with some of the most elusive fish in the world. 10 color photos.

Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman
Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman

Author: Jack Hemingway

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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Now in paperback, Jack Hemingway's autobiography, a warm and candid memoir that looks at the major events and personalities of our lifetime from the unique perspective of being Ernest Hemingway's son. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Misadventures in the (213)
Misadventures in the (213)

Author: Dennis Hensley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1999-06-23

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0688171281

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What Tales of the City did for San Francisco, Misadventures in the (213) does double for L.A. in this audacious, satirical tale of a struggling screenwriter, his media-whore best friend, and their circle of celebrity-seeking pals. "(213)?" you'll likely ask. Well, the area code, of course. "Misadventures?" Just the high jinks underemployed Tinseltown wannabes are usually up to. Like making off with fish from Tina Louise's koi pond. Or harassing Alicia Silverstone with tales of watermelon-loving porn stars. Or auctioning off Andrew Shue's chicken wing and Heather Locklear's lip print for charity. You know. Packed with Hollywood life lessons and more B-level celebs than you can shake a casting sheet at, Misadventures in the (213) is a brilliantly witty dagger straight through the heart of the L.A. entertainment machine.

Fish On, Fish Off
Fish On, Fish Off

Author: Stephen Sautner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1493025066

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Fish On, Fish Off is the angling version of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods. Through a series of nearly 50 personal essays, the author explores what happens when the self-taught, DIY angler sets out to fish the world – and winds up stumbling into every possible pitfall and danger along the way. These include: getting chased from a river by an elephant, surviving a terrifying helicopter ride over the Straits of Magellan, and breaking his only rod on the second cast in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. Closer to home, he is swept off a jetty on Block Island by a rogue wave, winds up in an emergency room more than once with fishing lures hanging from various parts of his anatomy, and perhaps most daunting, surviving 30 years of the scrum better known as opening day of trout season in his crowded home state of New Jersey. If Upriver and Downstream showed the poetry of angling, Fish On, Fish Off shows the scars.

Denizens Of The Deep
Denizens Of The Deep

Author: Philip Wylie

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015654075

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Author: Paul Torday

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2008-04-21

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0547416253

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An unassuming scientist takes an unbelievable adventure in the Middle East in this “extraordinary” novel—the inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor (The Guardian). Dr. Alfred Jones lives a quiet, predictable life. He works as a civil servant for the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London; his wife, Mary, is a determined, no-nonsense financier; he has simple routines and unassuming ambitions. Then he meets Muhammad bin Zaidi bani Tihama, a Yemeni sheikh with money to spend and a fantastic—and ludicrous—dream of bringing the sport of salmon fishing to his home country. Suddenly, Dr. Jones is swept up in an outrageous plot to attempt the impossible, persuaded by both the sheikh himself and power-hungry members of the British government who want nothing more than to spend the sheikh’s considerable wealth. But somewhere amid the bureaucratic spin and Yemeni tall tales, Dr. Jones finds himself thinking bigger, bolder, and more impossibly than he ever has before. Told through letters, emails, interview transcripts, newspaper articles, and personal journal entries, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is “a triumph” that both takes aim at institutional absurdity and gives loving support to the ideas of hopes, dreams, and accomplishing the impossible (The Guardian).

The Founding Fish
The Founding Fish

Author: John McPhee

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2003-09-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0374706344

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John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.