{"product_id":"anglers-astoria-dave-hughes-9780811712156","title":"Angler's Astoria","description":"Praise for the first edition\u003cbr\u003e\"Hughes' thesis seems to be that angling is a rare pleasure to be shared in print as well as enjoyed in person.\" --Steve Raymond, \u003ci\u003eFlyfisher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His views on conservation are especially refreshing with a depth of historical perspective and a clean line of reasoning that will grab your understanding first, then your emotions, unlike much of the standard rhetoric that omits that first step.\" --John Gierach\u003cbr\u003e\"An Angler's Astoria is full of the youthful exuberance of its author and his Pacific Northwest. Among so many books of doleful reminiscence (written by young men), Hughes's stories are oases.\" --\u003ci\u003eFly Fisherman \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like his more formal works, An Angler's Astoria contains many lessons, the kind you come by honestly, if you grow up fishing a place you learn to love--homewaters, or heartwaters as it were--and ultimately become an aquatic entomologist-cum-expert fly fisher.\" --Seth Norman, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Fly Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eNew edition of one of the books that launched Dave Hughes' career\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e1st edition published by Frank Amato in 1982\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eNew preface and a substantive, new, unpublished piece, Life Cycles\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eA reflective, exuberant collection of stories and essays about Hughes' home water near his hometown, Astoria, Oregon \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dave Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081171215X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811712156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stackpole Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.20d","brand":"Dave Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48441357926655,"sku":"9780811712156","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ae82353-f0e9-4421-b06e-de8bb769f0c2.jpg?v=1777190385","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anglers-astoria-dave-hughes-9780811712156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}