"The writing is often polished rough, like the Upper Peninsula. At times it can sing as sweetly as a warbler. It is at times as gentle as the current of a small creek only to suck you into complacency and dump you like a slippery midstream rock. And, this is something I found particularly inviting: at the end it leaves you wanting to know more." --Sault Evening News

"His writing is suffused with wit, but it can also be moving. A very special book, for anglers, of course, but also for those who appreciate a finely wrought memoir." --Publishers Weekly

"Joseph Heywood is like the fine win he enjoys-he gets better with age. In Covered Waters, Joe hooked me right from the first page. Heywood made me laugh, got me a bit choked up and usually kept a smile on my face and an eager anticipation for the next page with his earthy, pithy delivery." -- Kalamazoo Gazette

"Michigan has no shortage of great fishing writers. Heywood is one of them. But he's also something else: Heywood is a terrific writer. Period. They are terrific reads and rank right up with the work of big names like Grisham and Clancy." -- Enquirer (Battle Creek, MI)

Originally published in 2003, Covered Waters is a "forgotten classic" by Joseph Heywood. Now back in print and featuring new material, this collection of autobiographical essays and fishing tales helps readers understand the extent of Heywood’s passion for the sport, especially in his native waters of Michigan. Covered Waters covers an outdoorsman’s wanderings and wonderings about fishing and life, and how the two are often interconnected. These episodes include reminiscences of his days in the U.S. Air Force, training to drop nukes on the Soviet Union in the Cold War; his temporary but intense obsession with bear hunting (which ended the moment he finally killed a bear); and, of course, his international adventures in fishing, recounting such hilarious scenes as two women in France engaged in what appeared to be strip fishing. After fishing the world over, Heywood finds that there is no water like home water, and no fishing partners like old friends.
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A "lost classic" by Joseph Heywood, beloved author of mysteries set among fisherman and hunters. Reissued and featuring brand new material since the original edition, this collection of essays and fishing tales helps readers understand the extent of Heywood’s passion for the sport, and revel in his own admission: he rarely catches any!
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781493013128
Publisert
2015-11-16
Utgiver
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
376 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Joseph Heywood is the author of The Snowfly, Covered Waters, The Berkut, Taxi Dancer, The Domino Conspiracy, the nine Grady Service Mysteries, Hard Ground: Woods Cop Stories, Harder Ground, and Red Jacket and Mountains of the Misbegotten (Lute Bapcat Mysteries). Featuring Grady Service, a contemporary detective in the Upper Peninsula for Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources, and Lute Bapcat, a Rough Rider turned Michigan game warden in the 1910s, Heywood's mystery series have earned the author cult status among lovers of the outdoors, law enforcement officials, and mystery devotees. Heywood lives in Portage, Michigan. Visit the author’s web site at josephheywood.com.