Add this copy of Fishing With John to cart. $9.36, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Harbour Publishing.
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Add this copy of Fishing With John to cart. $35.85, like new condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1988 by Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd..
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges, Boards Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. ALSO KNOWN AS: Parts of this book first appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker. JACKET: The chart on the jacket was John Daly's and shows his notations. DESIGNED BY: Tere Lo Prete. SYNOPSIS: Fishing with John is the story of an adventure. In 1974, in middle age, Edith Iglauer, who had been born into a comfortably well-off family in Cleveland and had lived a privileged, urban, sophisticated life in New York, met a commercial salmon fisherman in British Columbia, married him, and spent the better part of the next four years, until Daly's death, on his forty-one-foot troller the Morekelp. The book is also the story of John Daly, an impassioned and greatly talented fisherman who was convinced he could "think like a fish"; an amateur philosopher who worked out, and followed, an original set of beliefs and principles; a mystic who, after forty years of fishing, felt himself to be at one with the sea and the mountains along the British Columbia coast; a scholarly-looking, high-spirited, full-blown eccentric who covered the white walls of his pilothouse with his favorite quotations in bold black letters ("Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke. O. W. Holmes"), kept a copy of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam under the mattress of his bunk, listened, between fish, to Mozart on the CBC radio, carried on polite conversations with his stove, and took hundreds of photographs of sunsets at sea, each of which was individually fixed, with place and circumstances, in his memory; an outdoorsman who hated and avoided cities and went so far as to have an aversion to architects because they designed buildings; and a man who was known everywhere along the B.C. coast for his integrity and noble character. Moreover, the book is a love story: an unlikely convergence of two people from different worlds who were able to make a rich and tender life together, and not only to endure each other's company in alarmingly close quarters but to revel in it. Edith Iglauer writes honestly, directly, and enchantingly about her extraordinary experience as what her husband called "a fishwife." The three interwoven stories she tells become a compendium of B. C. fishing lore. Life aboard the Morekelp was harsh, prim9itive, dangerous, and exhilarating. All of it was new to Edith Iglauer, and her account is filled with her sense of surprise at what she was witnessing and at what she found herself doing. The details she records here remain surprising: how she learned to make her way around the slippery deck without falling overboard, how to hang the teacups up facing in the same direction so that when the boat rocked they would not collide and break, how to identify the boat's various sounds; the pleasure she took in fitting things into the cupboard, closely packed in to brace one another in niches that were familiar to both her and John--the coffee can bracing the Scotch whiskey bottle, held in place by the Britl-Tak, the pancake mix, the pickles, and so on; and everything she observed of what John did--and did with style--when he fished. Such are the minutiae we encounter as we read this lovely book. By the time we reach the end, in addition, we have come to know a number of John's remarkable friends, and, most important, we have come to know the joyful John Daly himself.
Add this copy of Fishing With John to cart. $36.15, like new condition, Sold by Balfour Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sidmouth, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1988 by Harbour Publishing.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Fine Copy half bound with cloth on boards in Fine unclipped D/J. Free of inscriptions. Clean and flat contents.
Add this copy of Fishing With John to cart. $40.90, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Harbour Publishing.
