Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley
by Ted Leeson
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Author: Ted LeesonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-01
ISBN: 1602397961
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Book Review: Enlightening, Funny, Super-smart
Summary: 5 Stars
Inventing Montana solidifies Ted Leeson's position as fly fishing's chief philosopher. Here Leeson tackles how and why Montana has become our sport's Valhalla, while at the same time painting a vivid picture of the area's geographic, geological, and cultural features. Leeson keeps us grounded in visceral descriptions of fishing, fishing friends, and fishing camp, descriptions that put me right there with him. And as someone who has never fished Montana, I still found it totally engaging--it's about fly fishing and fly fisherman more than anything else. This is definitely Leeson's funniest book...I laughed out-loud many times. Sure to be read for as long as people fish flies.
Summary of Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley
?Ted Leeson is taking us in the only direction the literature of angling should go: toward finding our place in the natural world. His voice is indispensable.??Thomas McGuane
Every summer for two decades, Ted Leeson and a maverick group of close companions have returned to an old ranch house on the benchland overlooking the Madison River. Trout and fly fishing may be at the heart of their ritual return, but their experience goes far beyond the fishing. Leeson contemplates both the human and natural landscape brilliantly: the fly-anglers? passionate, ironic, and sometimes hilarious allegiances to what they do; the intriguing Madison Valley and its creatures and flowers; the trout town of Ennis; maps and their revelations; the ?green-card? experience of living in a place in which you are not native; the nature of leisure.Full of wit, surprise, shrewd observation, and wisdom, this book tells a story about creating a place of temporary liberty, and inhabiting a world fashioned of your best imaginings, where you might, for a time, live the potencies of a place that you have shaped and has shaped you. No lover of the very best writing about fly fishing and the natural world can afford to miss this stunning book.
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