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David James Duncan My Story As Told By Water
University of California Press 1578050839 / 9781578050833 Paperback BOOK
David James Duncan, award-winning author of The River Why, braids his contemplative, activist, & rhapsodic voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power & urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies & this water-covered planet. 4 B&W photos; 6x9 inches, 304 pgs.
'In this remarkable collection of essays, David James Duncan, award-winning author of The River Why, braids his contemplative, activist, and rhapsodic voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet.
Confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark.
The twenty-two essays in this collection swirl and eddy around the author's early-forged bond with the rivers of the Pacific Northwest and their endangered native salmon. With a bracing blend of story, logic, science, and humor, Duncan relates mystical, life-changing fishing adventures; draws incisive portraits of the humans and wild creatures who shaped his destiny; attacks the corporate greed and political folly that have brought whole ecosystems to ruin; and meditates on the spiritual and practical necessity of acknowledging our dependence on water in its primal state.
The Sierra Club is proud to announce that My Story As Told By Water has been nominated as a 2001 finalist in the Nonfiction category for the prestigious National Book Awards. Read the Sierra Club's news release on this topic (November 5, 2001).
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"There's an engaging coherence to Duncan's 22 angry, heartbroken, yet hopeful and often quite comic nature essays. . . . Sounding a clarion call to conservation activism, Duncan eloquently explains why clean, free running water matters: just as we die without good water, so does the earth. Yet his unabashed polemic is nicely cushioned by rhapsody; he's the ranter as poet."
--Publishers Weekly
"Refreshing as a glass of cold water on a scorching day. . . . Duncan invites, includes, intrigues, and inculcates his readers so that they will never think of the Pacific Northwest, salmon, Montana, or Nevada gold mines as they did before."
--Library Journal
"This book is the Desert Solitaire of water." --Jim Harrison
"Original, skillful, and funny as hell." --Ian Frazier
"My Story as told by Water is the real McCoy, vivid and important, full of urgent news about living on earth."
--Thomas McGuane
CONTENTS:
WONDER VERSUS LOSS
1. Valmiki's Palm
2. Birdwatching as a Blood Sport
3. The Non Sense of Place
4. Tilt
5. Who Owns the West': Seven Wrong Answers
6. Six Henry Stories
ACTIVISM
7. Native
8. Lake of the Stone Mother
9. The War for Norman's River
10. The 1872 Knee-Mining Act & Your Exciting Financial Future!
11. Beauty/Violence/Grief/Frenzy/Love: On the Contemplative Versus the Activist Life
12. A Prayer for the Salmon's Second Coming
13. River Soldiers
14. Strategic Withdrawal
FISHING THE INSIDE PASSAGE
15. Idiot Joy
16. In Praise of No Guide
17. Estuary from an Afterlife
18. Fearless Leader
19. Khawaja Khadir
20. god
21. Spirit-Fried No-Name River Brown Trout: A Recipe
Appendix: "The Lives of Tuan Mac Cairill"
About the Photographs
Acknowledgements
AWARDS:
Western States Award
National Book Award Finalist, 2001
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
David James Duncan, author of The River Why, has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and has won a Montana Arts Council Award. He lives in Montana.
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14.30 USD
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David James Duncan River Teeth
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE 0553378279 / 9780553378276 Paperback BOOK
A complex and wondrous meditation on love, loss, passion and, of course, fly fishing. 5x8 inches, 224 pgs.
'In his passionate, luminous novels, David James Duncan has won the devotion of countless critics and readers, earning comparisons to Harper Lee, Tom Robbins, and J.D. Salinger, to name just a few. Now Duncan distills his remarkable powers of observation into this unique collection of short stories and essays.
At the heart of Duncan's tales are characters undergoing the complex and violent process of transformation, with results both painful and wondrous. Equally affecting are his nonfiction reminiscences, the "river teeth" of the title. He likens his memories to the remains of old-growth trees that fall into Northwestern rivers and are sculpted by time and water. These experiences--shaped by his own river of time--are related with the art and grace of a master storyteller. In River Teeth, a uniquely gifted American writer blends two forms, taking us into the rivers of truth and make-believe, and all that lies in between.
REVIEWS
"Exquisite." --Buzz
"To read River Teeth is to have a stranger's recollections loom up out of vagary and namelessness, and to grip you as if they were your own." --Los Angeles Times
WHAT OTHER WRITERS ARE SAYING
"Poignant, funny, and artful, Duncan's 'river teeth' are like elongated American haiku, stretching their grainy syllables from the home plate of nostalgia to the outfield fences of eternity." --Tom Robbins
"David James Duncan is in love with water, the rivers and streams that coursed through his life. Believe me, you will be swept up by his rivers, carried downstream, and deposited in a new place. In that new place, Duncan will build a fire and tell you a bunch of stories. What else could you want'" --Sherman Alexie
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David James Duncan The River Why: 20th Anniversary Edition
University of California Press 1578050847 / 9781578050840 Paperback BOOK
Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature & a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. 5.5x8 inches, 310 pgs.
'Since its publication by Sierra Club Books nearly two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as the most-read fiction about fly-fishing of our era. Duncan's protagonist, Gus Orviston, is an irreverent young flyfisherman--a vibrant character who makes us laugh easily and feel deeply, and who speaks with startling truth about the way we live.
Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation.
The River Why is a tale that gives a contemporary voice to the concerns and hopes of all living things on this beautiful, watery planet. It is the story of one man's search for meaning, for love, and for a sane way to live.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"Irreverent, offbeat, and thoroughly likable."
--Los Angeles Times
"Entertaining. . . humorous. . . well worth reading."
--Chicago Tribune
"Wonderfully funny. . . imbued with a wisdom and a rather joyous ecology-minded spirit."
--Esquire
"A veritable epic. . . moving, rhapsodic in its intensity."
--Publishers Weekly
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
David James Duncan is the author of The Brothers K, an American Library Association Best Books Award winner and a New York Times Notable Book, and River Teeth, a memoir and collection of stories. The River Why and The Brothers K both won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Duncan's work has appeared in Harper's, Outside, Orion, The Sun, Sierra, Big Sky Journal, Northern Lights, Gray's Sporting Journal, and many other publications. He lives with his family beside a Montana trout stream.
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David James Duncan Trout Grass: A Documentary
Volcano Motion Pictures
For anyone who has ever picked up a fly rod...& found a story. This unique film documents the transformation of bamboo from a hardy species of grass into a meticulously crafted split-cane fly rod. 47 min.
'Trout Grass is an evocative journey into the passion of fly fishing while revealing the magical process of cultivating natural fibers into a functional work of art. From the verdant hillsides of Southern China to a dusty workshop & the clear rivers of Montana, this story reveals what the spirit of unseen hands can do for the soul. Writer David James Duncan's first film script takes us inside the heart of one of America's most beloved story-tellers, as we learn how plying the waters with a fly rod made of grass can help anglers find their place in the order of rivers & flowing things.
Follow the journey of a remarkable plant, through the hands-on approach to a century-old tradition, as master rod maker Glenn Brackett transforms a single bamboo pole into a stunning 3-oz. fly rod.
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