To Know a River: A Haig-Brown Reader

by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Thomas McGuane (Introduction), Valerie Haig-Brown (Editor)

(Synopsis) Roderick Haig-Brown has been hailed as one of the great writers on fly fishing and its many moods since his work was first published in the early 1930's. Today his writings about the rivers he loved, the trout and salmon that obsessed him, and the life of an angler are as stirring, amusing, and powerfully felt as they were when first published.

Genres: Nonfiction

372 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown (February 21, 1908 — October 9, 1976) was a Canadian writer and conservationist, who is acclaimed internationally for his writing on fly fishing.

Reviews

[Dave Brown]

My Favorite to date. I have read it three times.