Nick Lyons, Author Simon & Schuster $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67653-7
These essays, reprinted from Fly Fisherman magazine, form a smooth and satisfying collection. A book publisher and essayist, Lyons ( Bright Rivers ) is adept at both writing and fly fishing--qualities in evidence despite his humility and self-depreca
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Nick Lyons, Author, Mari Lyons, Illustrator Atlantic Monthly Press $20 (169p) ISBN 978-0-87113-525-4
If, as Norman MacLean claims in A River Runs Through It , the apostle John was a dry fly fisherman, surely wild spring creeks are the flyfisher's sanctum sanctorum. In these 12 personal essays, Lyons declares himself a true believer, practicing his...
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Nick Lyons, Author, Mari Lyons, Illustrator Atlantic Monthly Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87113-628-2
On a gray afternoon 40 years ago, Lyons hooked, and quickly lost, a large brown trout on a dry fly on Michigan's Au Sable River. He subsequently ordered his life around that ""remarkable moment"" and today Lyons is one of America's best-known fly-fis
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Nick Lyons, Author, Mari Lyons, Illustrator, Thomas McGuane, Foreword by Atlantic Monthly Press $25 (508p) ISBN 978-0-87113-813-2
Fly-fishing aficionados know Lyons as one of the more eminent writers and publishers of angling literature. This omnibus gleans the best of his seven fishing books, from 1970's The Seasonable Angler to last year's My Secret Fishing Life. Whether...
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Nick Lyons, Author, Mari Lyons, Author, Mari Lyons, Illustrator Atlantic Monthly Press $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-87113-750-0
Within the pond of those who write about fly-fishing, Lyons is one of the bigger fish. He has authored 16 titles (In Praise of Wild Trout, etc.) on the evidently inexhaustible subject and has published others' books on the art and mystique of fly-fis
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Eldridge Hardie, Author, Nick Lyons, Author, George Reiger, Introduction by Stackpole Books $60 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8117-1429-7
The first artist ever to have a one-man retrospective at the National Bird Dog Museum (Grand Junction, Tenn.), Eldridge Hardie paints oil and watercolor scenes of hunters chasing grouse and ducks; trout in Colorado's South Platte River; fly ...
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Nick Lyons. Arcade, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-951627-19-5
Lyons (Fishing Stories), publisher of Lyons Press, casts out a sentimental memoir about how he achieved artistic fulfillment over his 80 plus years. In 1937, five-year-old “Nicki” lived happily in the Bronx with his widowed mother, Rose, and her...
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