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River earth : a personal map / John C. Pierce.
LIBRA CT275.P637 A3 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierce, John C., 1943-
- Series:
- Northwest voices essay series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pierce, John C., 1943-.
- Pierce, John C.
- Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
- Northwest, Pacific.
- Jeru Creek Region (Idaho)--Biography.
- Jeru Creek Region (Idaho).
- Rivers--Northwest, Pacific--Anecdotes.
- Rivers.
- Fly fishing--Northwest, Pacific--Anecdotes.
- Fly fishing.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 191 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pullman, Wash. : WSU Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- River Earth is a Personal exploration of family and community in and around the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. In these poignant essays, John Pierce probes the lifelong impact of a teenage boy's loss of a father, and how it led his own sons to a life on the river. He lifts the covers from the seeming tranquility of north Idaho's woods to reveal the personal impact of a friend's fear of racial violence. His mother's heroic lingering death forces him to confront who he is--while in the midst of a relationship that had lain dormant. Nighttime visits by Johnny Cash, two-foot long fish that don't exist, and a son who hears music in his head while wandering along Jeru Creek all enliven and enrich this moving yet humorous book.
- Love, anger, wonder, a sense of place, of family, and of community--all emerge in this collection of evocative autobiographical excurisions. River Earth will have meaning for every reader who has thought about who they are and why.
- Contents:
- 1. Riverfishing 1
- 2. River Earth 11
- 3. Fly Fishing Alone 21
- 4. Lagniappe: The Accidental Finding 29
- 5. Politics and the Pack 39
- 6. The Sounds of Silence 53
- 7. Mirage: The Fish that Doesn't Exist 63
- 8. The Survivalist 69
- 9. Masquerade 85
- 10. Flylife 93
- 11. The Inclined Plane 101
- 12. The Forest Primeval 113
- 13. The Bogachiel Sonata 127
- 14. Violation 145
- 15. Who Am I? 159
- 16. Rivers of Change 177.
- ISBN:
- 0874221765
- 0874221773
- OCLC:
- 40723691
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