North Bank: Claiming a Place on the Rogue

By Robin B. Carey

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870714481
• ISBN13: 9780870714481
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An Unknown Delight

There are many great fishing books and this is one of them. Few books give a Northwest sense of place as fine as this one, however. I haven't been to the northwest but it looms large in my mind. The rain, the rivers, the fecundity of life there, sets it apart. Fishing is one of Carey's themes but it is not strictly a fishing book. It has much to do with living in a variable environment with appreciation and an open mind. One thing I like is how the book flows like a river. It is like looking into a slow moving pool holding hidden fish in its depths. As you read an emotional image, like a fish surfacing here and there, will come to mind that makes you say a-ha. Carey has not written much and that is a shame because he has great feeling for his surroundings. This book was cross-referenced in The Longest Silence reviews. High praise, indeed. I believe he holds his own with Haig-Brown, too. Since there are so few reviews here, I felt it deserved more recognition. It deserves to reprinted with fine illustrations, particularly to replace the dark, dreary cover

A wonderful evocation of flyfishing and landscape.

NORTH BANK explores the patterns and the feelings of recreating a home place. After the author and his wife buy a home beside the Rogue River, he sets about discovering the locale--the hillsides, the neighbors, the rivers, the fly-fishing riffles. What began as strange landscape gradually takes on a familiar and valued quality. This book engages the process of rediscovery that we all experience, in some form, when we move from one place to another and set about putting down new roots. Because the author loves rivers and flyfishing, his particular process has much to do with the rivers and smaller coastal streams of the region. But there is more than fishing here. A wonderful read.