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001 2013017956
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050 00 $aF782.S18$bM48 2013
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084 $aNAT041000$aNAT024000$aSPO014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMeyers, Steven J.
245 10 $aNotes from the San Juans :$bthoughts about fly fishing and home /$cSteven J. Meyers.
264 1 $aPortland, OR :$bWestWinds Press,$c2013.
300 $a144 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe Pruett series
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Lyons & Burford, 1992.
520 2 $a"This book, more than anything else, is a book about place. Centered on the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, a range of jagged peaks inhabited by the sometimes equally jagged people of small mountain towns, it is a book about the search for a place to call home, after other homes have been wrecked. Steve Meyers, a transplanted Easterner, speaks for tens of thousands of younger people who have searched for a way of life outside of the homogenizing pressures of contemporary American society. His search led him to the San Juans and he writes with extraordinary warmth and depth about a way of life that has become increasingly rare and a region that has managed to maintain its startling beauty and idiosyncrasies; and he writes movingly about a father who vanished and about personal loss and about triumph. Throughout the book, wild trout and colorful people appear as comfortable residents of this relatively remote region in which the act of fly fishing seems as natural as eating and sleeping. Ultimately Notes from the San Juans is the story of a man who has been seduced by the pleasures of the mountains and the joys of fly fishing and bright mountain streams--but it is also very much a story of human values and courage and hard-won joy"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aPrologue -- Coming Home -- Jewels, Surprises, and Some Reasons -- Why I Fish -- Three-Score and Ten -- The Cannonball Cast and the Sick -- Frog Lure -- Natives -- Tailwaters and Homewaters -- Damn Trout -- Dolores Is Still Dancing -- Drifting -- Smythe -- A Hat Full of Gold -- Who Owns the River? -- Lost Souls -- Old Timers -- Moving Downriver.
651 0 $aSan Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)$xDescription and travel.
600 10 $aMeyers, Steven J.$xHomes and haunts$zSan Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)
650 0 $aFly fishing$zSan Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)
650 0 $aTrout fishing$zSan Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)
651 0 $aSan Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aSan Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)$vBiography.
650 7 $aNATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aNATURE / Essays.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSPORTS & RECREATION / Fishing.$2bisacsh