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Northern Waters | 
 enlarge | Author: Jan Zita Grover
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2454977
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 236
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1555972942
Dewey Decimal Number: 799.12409776
EAN: 9781555972943
ASIN: 1555972942
Publication Date: October 15, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
One of the terrific things about fish lit is that it's continually refreshing itself with new voices that bring changing perspective to an old and vigorous sporting art. "I wish hooking fish occasionally weren't necessary to me," writes Jan Zita Grover in Northern Waters, "but it is: I need--or have I merely transmuted desire into necessity?--to touch fish with wet and, I hope, reverent hands, to feel their body torquing away from me, leaving a fresh acrid scent on my fingers that lingers as potently, as alluringly, as the smell of sex." More than a memoir of her personal journey from working stiff in San Francisco to resident angler seeking peace (and self) in the woods of Minnesota, Grover's is a story of the geography of those woods, learning to appreciate and care about them, and working actively to conserve the nature encompassed by them. "Submitting myself to the tutelage of waters, weather, and fish doesn't lead only inward," she observes, "it also leads toward the immense, seemingly intractable problems of logging, sewage disposal, mercury deposition--problems that no one can escape on the streams of the North Woods.... Perhaps this explains in part Minnesotans' zeal for fishing Montana: problems there belong to someone else and look different. "As a true angler, of course, she comes to learn that they don't look so different. There's plenty of fishing in Northern Waters, some pretty good fish stories, and even some catching of fish, but it's the process, not the result, that captures Grover's imagination, infusing her prose. It's a process, she learns, that makes her part of this unique yet interconnected environment. --Jeff Silverman
Product Description
With Northern Waters, Jan Zita Grover convincingly conveys the awe she has found in those moments when she has entered wholly into a watery landscape: feeling a fish body rubbing by her leg in a city stream; losing herself to the unthinking rhythm of a perfect cast; fishing alone at night, a woman at peace. Northern Waters is an evocative, broad-ranging collection that encompasses environmental activism, fish tales, nature writing, fly-tying, and an encouragement to stop along our way--not to smell the roses, but to experience the fish.
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| Customer Reviews:
"Northern Waters" speaks to this Minnesotan! March 28, 2000
I don't fish, but I really enjoyed this book. The author writes of themes that anyone can identify with, with a warmth and humanity that drew me in.
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