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Article: Haunted by Waters: Fly Fishing in North American Literature.(Review)
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- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Ernest Hemingway Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Haunted by Waters: Fly Fishing in North American Literature. By Mark Browning. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. Cloth $34.95. Paper $16.95.
From the Irati to the Fox, from the Test to the Beaverkill, Browning guides us through the major rivers of both European and North American literature. We begin this eleven-chapter book, a book that goes beyond just "fly" fishing, by reading about etchings of trout and salmon on the walls of Magdalenian-period caves, and encounter through Browning's aquatic metaphors a "midstream" overview of the relationship between fishing and literature. Browning also reminds us that some devotees of the sport view fly fishing as a ...