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WOOD THRUSH BOOKS -- BACKPACKING & FISHING NARRATIVE |
Back Cover Blurb:
Barbless Hooks and Anchorholds is the story of one man´s brief backpacking excursion into the Russian Wilderness of Northern California with his five-year-old daughter. During the course of this trip, the author casually recounts the natural and human history of the region. But simple facts such as these only intensify the despair that Green feels every time he ponders the state of the world. An anchorhold is needed -- something to tether his daughter to what really matters before she goes off to school. So Green searches deep within himself for a core value, an appropriate starting point, as he and his daughter venture deeper into the wild.Excerpts from the Book:
As She´ifa amd I walk along the banks of the Salmon River, the wind´s cold fingers and hard lips touch us again. The sky is silver. The river ripples and blackens granite stones in a pebbly clatter. Insect larvae flash in the moving water. The shoreline rises steep and fast, a sheer wall wedged over the creek like a slipping weight. The slope is crumbly, thin-skinned, but crowned to the ridge tops with raucous growth that conceals vertiginous views.About the Author:There was a stretch of years after I first learned to fly cast when I broke off the entire hook on my flies. Seeing the fish rise to my offering was enough.
One of the reasons I have come here is in hope that She´ifa will have the strength to remain herself when school starts in August. [. . .] I want to offer her fishing as an anchorhold, as another way to hold steady.
The ground is humanized, measured in literal footsteps. And each footstep carries us thousands of years backwards in time, into a previous abundance, while taking us forward, a leap into a healing future.
Benjamin Green hikes and fishes the wild country of the American West. He writes poems and philosophical pieces about his outdoor experiences, in addition to running a janitorial service. His collection of personal essays, The Field Notes of a Madman, is still in print along with his poetry collection, The Sound of Fish Dreaming, and a few other slender volumes. He lives in Trinidad, California with his partner, Anita, and his daughter, She'ifa.
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