In the Company of Rivers:an Angler's Sto

By Ed Quigley

Book Overview

In this charming collection of fly-fishing short stories, readers will discover that fly fishing can lead to many places. Experience the various journeys taken by the author to places like remote... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595446825
• ISBN13: 9780595446827
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A very good read

I shelled out good money for this book - and thoroughly enjoyed it. Quigley is a masterful storyteller. While I am not a fisherman, the word pictures painted by the author really made me feel as if I were there with him. I particularly liked "The Legend" and "Painted Ladies."

A great collection of stories

This book contains a great collection of stories which will stimulate an outdoorsman's desire to escape to a better place. A must for any fly fisherman's library.

What a pleasant surprise!

Most of my reading is done in airports, planes and hotel rooms. So I buy books with short chapters. Quigley's collection of 25 fly fishing stories makes the cut. These stories are fast-paced and amusing and the characters are unforgettable. "Painted Ladies" recounts a Newtonian moment at the bar in NYC's Waldorf-Astoria "amid a hatch of Dollimentia sophisticata" that leads to a fly fishing theory of attraction. "Angling Attire" reveals how Orvis outfits raise everyone's expectations. "Catch & Release" catches Lee Wulff with a trout on the grill and another on the wall. In "The Legend," which first appeared in the Yale Anglers' Journal, a fisherman achieves dubious fame on the flats in the Bahamas. Quigley's other stories take you to the Outer Banks in search of albies, to Labrador for giant brookies, to Florida for tarpon, to Walker's Cay, Ireland, Scotland, Alaska, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania. I recommend Quigley's book to all fellow travelers and sporting gentlemen who enjoy their fly fishing adventures short, sweet and seasoned with good writing and more than a pinch of wit. It makes a great gift for the fisherman in your life.

I took the bait

I don't fish -- but I DID thoroughly enjoy this warm, witty and wise book about Quigley's adventures with rod, reel ... and cigar. My husband (who DOES fish) found the stories not only entertaining, but stealthily instructive. Who knew?

A must have for anyone who loves a good story .

A wonderfully warm book that you'll love spending time with. Pull up a comfortable chair and start turning the pages. You'll feel like you're in the company of the author as he entertains you with the telling of his adventures. Then in the days and weeks after, you'll find yourself thinking back to the stories and just smiling at the memory of them. Greatly enjoyable whether you're a hunter or a fisherman or not.