A Place on the Water : An Angler's Reflections on Home
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A Place on the Water : An Angler's Reflections on Home
More than a collection of fishing stories, A Place on the Water is a passionate and eloquent exploration of subjects with broad appeal: love of land and water, informed and unsentimental appreciation of nature, and outrage at changes that threaten to obliterate places we can no longer afford to take for granted. Jerry Dennis’s sparkling prose and Glenn Wolff’s captivating illustrations transport us to a world we recognize from childhood: a place of limitless range and possibility, shimmering with life, where the very next cast will be the one that hooks something enormous and wonderful.
PRAISE: “A Place on the Water is a collection of lyrical, haunting essays, set in northern Michigan. Many are about fishing, but that does not necessarily mean they are to be enjoyed strictly by anglers. Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River was about fishing, too, but can be read for pleasure if you have never wet a line…Dennis covers a lot of ground, then; but there is throughout the book a kind of constant tone, as sharp and precise as the scent of cedar. And it stays with the reader long after he has put down the book.†~Geoffrey Norman, author of American Way
“Eloquent essays about the author’s adventures exploring his love of land, water and nature in his beloved Michigan…Enjoyable reading with beautiful, evocative illustrations.†~Sports Afield
"Jerry Dennis is one of a handful of superb writer who love angling deeply and write memoirs full of warmth, eloquence, and wit. A Place on the Water is a book of many robust—and fragile—miracles." ~Nick Lyons, Author of Spring Creek
"This is a book that Will remind you why you've always loved fishing canoeing, and all the other things you can only do on the water." ~John Gierach, author of Even Brook Trout Get the Blues
“Dennis is a gifted writer whose best stories evoke a true ‘spirit of place,’ to use a Lawrence Durrell phrase. Like fellow Michigan writer Jim Harrison, Edward Abbey, or Durrell, whose works of fiction and non-fiction would bring to life the places they wrote about, Dennis’ Michigan springs to life. You can almost smell the musky riverbanks or hear the buzzing mosquitoes…You don’t need to know anything about fishing to enjoy this wonderful book.†~Silent Sports Magazine
“My favorite things are a single phrase: “It felt like the hand of the earth came up and grabbed my lineâ€; and a profile, the best one I’ve ever seen, of the great fly-fishing writer Robert Traver… [This book] is a textbook demonstration of how loyalty to a place can produce a fascinating body of work that will be read far outside that place.†~Fly Rod and Reel Magazine
“…invites and inspires us to explore nature, to reflect more on our time outdoors, and never to squander a moment doing things half-hearted†~Jackson Citizen-Patriot
“Michigan is lucky to have and have had such clear voices speaking for it as John Voelker and Jerry Dennis.†~Gray’s Sporting Journal
“Strong, original and truthful…A sparkling, autobiographical collection of stories that will draw you into a shared sense of time and place.†~Grand Rapids Press
“A Place on the Water belongs with the small handful of classic books about fishing and the out-of-doors. But of even more importance…it brilliantly and magically evokes small joys and life-changing epiphanies…†~Flint Journal
“A great book to curl up with beside the fireplace. I think it will be considered a masterpiece for years to come.†~Delaware Journal
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