The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly-Fishing, with Mark Kurlansky

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021. 7pm Eastern. Online only via Zoom. Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/138332898423

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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish.

Gibson's Bookstore is pleased to virtually present Mark Kurlansky, with his new book, The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly-Fishing. He is joined in conversation by NH author Steve Angers (Fly Fishing New Hampshire's Secret Waters, owner of North Country Angler in North Conway).

Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char; and for some, bass, tarpon, tuna, bonefish, and even marlin--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky learns, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. There is an art, too, in the crafting of flies. Beautiful and intricate, some are made with more than two dozen pieces of feather and fur from a wide range of animals. The cast as well is a matter of grace and rhythm, with different casts and rods yielding varying results.

Event date: 
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
45 South Main St
Concord, NH 03301
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing By Mark Kurlansky Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781635573077
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 2nd, 2021

National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod
the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish.


Fly Fishing New Hampshire's Secret Waters (Natural History) By Steve Angers Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781467141680
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: History Press - March 30th, 2020

New Hampshire's hard and rugged exterior protects one of America's richest native brook trout fisheries. These abundant waters are as varied as the landscape, from Mount Washington to peaceful meadows. The anticipation of the largest mayfly hatch contrast.


Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World By Mark Kurlansky Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780140275018
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books - July 1st, 1998

“A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, it’s a bitter ecological fable for our time.” –Los Angeles Times

An unexpected, energetic look at world history via the humble cod fish from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World


Salt: A World History By Mark Kurlansky Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780142001615
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books - January 28th, 2003

“Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” - New York Times Book Review

An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World


The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell By Mark Kurlansky Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780345476395
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - January 9th, 2007

“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
–The New York Times

“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”
–Rocky Mountain News


Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate By Mark Kurlansky Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781938340864
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Patagonia - March 3rd, 2020

"Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."


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