Bright rivers

by Nick Lyons

Recounting pilgrimages near and far - to the Delaware, the Beaverkill, the Schoharie, the Madison, and the Big Hole - Nick Lyons explores a passion for angling that draws him ever closer to the seamless web of life in rivers. He is a city-dweller and never forgets that cities are part of the complex and inexorable reality of modern life; but he is also, in Ed Zern's phrase, that happy and compulsive combination of angler-poet-romantic, and rivers not only touch his heart and imagination but provide a vital link to the natural world. Bright Rivers chronicles the author's passion. He tells of experiences shared with angling friends - some moving, some hilarious - and shares reminiscences of big trout taken, released, or, sometimes, for Lyons is an admitted master of frustration and may well have written more about not catching fish than anyone else.

Genres: Sports

166 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1977

About the author

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Nick Lyons taught English at the University of Michigan prior to accepting a position at the Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1961. He remained on the faculty of CUNY until 1988. He also worked as the executive editor of Crown Publishers from 1964-1974. An avid fisherman, Lyons found a way to combine his avocation and profession in 1977 when he created his first publishing company, Nick Lyons Books, eventually Lyons Press. It earned the reputation as one of the premier publishers of fishing books, but the company also printed works on nature, camping, adventure, gardening, woodworking, travel, the sea, history, food and wine, art and reference, hunting, general sport, and a few fiction titles. In 1999, Tony Lyons, Nick's son, took over the firm which was acquired by Globe Pequot Press in 2001. As well as being a book publisher Nick Lyons is a prolific writer and has produced several books on fly fishing. He has written introductions, forewords and prefaces for many Lyons Press books and also had a feature column of essays named the "Seasonable Angler" in Fly Fisherman Magazine for many years. Lyons has written articles for many other periodicals including Field & Stream and the New York Times, and several anthologies of these essays have been published.

Reviews

[Edward Sojuwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book from popular fisherman/badass Nick Lyons is a tiny treasure trove of Nick's fishing adventures in New York and Montana as he sought the best trout while chomping on his cigar and contemplates on his favorite poetic authors like Hemingway, Cezanne, and even Thoreau (which figures since Thoreau loved the outdoors as well). His attempts are trial and error, mostly error, but he does have a sense of wry humor thru it all. May even turn me on to try fishing for trout myself. Very poetic and well written.
3 stars
Nick's Bright Rivers Runs Thru YOU!

[Jeanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful power of description.

[Ronald · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of my Easton Press books. A lot like the John Gierach books, but not quite as good.