Tales of Southern Rivers
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (994 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568331606 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Tales of Southern Rivers recounts his tales of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Everglades, and on remote rivers in the jungles of Mexico. When not writing his famous Western novels, Zane Grey was an insatiable angler. Armchair fishing will never be the same.. With many of these venues being some of today's most popular saltwater fly-fishing destinations, no one will want to miss these highly entertaining and informative yarns
"Five Stars" according to tinyman. Wonderfull book. Charles Wheeler said What A Fishing Book Should Be. I knew this was going to be an excellent book even as I opened it for the first time. With the first sentence from Zane Grey's pencil you could feel the love of the sport exude from the writing--his passion, his enthusiasm, his need to tell these stories of the Gulf Stream, the rivers of the Everglades, and his adventure down an unknown jungle river. Not onl. "A bit different" according to Jared Ostermann. I love all of Grey's fishing books, and this is no exception. This one is unique in the sense that it is one half tarpon fishing and one half an account of exploring a wild jungle river in Mexico. Actually, the river trip is one of my all-time favorite stories from Grey. He pulls together an inexperienced young American and a recently-reformed alcoholic Mexi
He died of heart failure in 1939. However, his heart was not in dentistry, it was in writing. They had three children, and eventually moved to California where Zane could both experience the West and write about it. He attended the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship where he became a dentist. He was one of America's most prolific authors, writing almost 90 books. . In 1905 he married Lina Roth. Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872
(Chris Camuto Gray's Sporting Journal) . Tales of Southern Rivers puts you in the fighting chair and on the casting platform for spectacular big-game fishing on the Gulf Stream, in the Everglades, in and around the Florida Keys and up wild Mexican rivers