River of the Angry Moon

by Harvey Thommasen and Mark Hume

Book Overview

The Bella Coola River, now closed to steelhead fishing because the stocks are endangered, is a magnificent sight. Flowing through the stunning richness of British Columbia's temperate rain forest, the Bella Coola River is one of the world's celebrated fishing streams. In this poetic and powerful book, Mark Hume describes a year in the life of the river as he fly-fishes for the fairylike whitefish, the legendary bull trout, the spirited cutthroat or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550546600
• ISBN13: 9781550546606
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, Limited
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.7" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The seasons of the Bella Coola

In a book that carries the reader from deeply moving and poetic insights of BC's coastal natural phenomena, to alarming and occasionaly scathing analyses of resource management practices, Hume relates an incredibly intimate knowledge of the ecology and people of a very rich landscape. It may have been tempting for Hume to slip into a ranting diatribe of the regretable past policies which have scarred this beautiful place, but instead he describes to the reader the natural wonders of the Bella Coola valley along with the legends of the First Nations people that have inhabited the area. Hume's knowledge is vast and he can easily hold your interest on whatever subject takes his fancy. Highly recomended.