In14 beautifully crafted nonfictionstories, the author takesreaders fly-fishing around the world, from Canadian forests to upland Croatia, from Scottish islands to London suburbs, always journeying into the heart of the landscape to meet ordinary, extraordinary people. This darkly humorous collection is destined to become, like Thomas McGuane s "The Longest Silence," a classic of the genre."

This work features stories that take us from London suburbs to Bhutan, the Soviet wilderness to the Seychelles - anywhere a fishing rod leads. It helps you battle titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash.