This is an interesting book – especially having “discovered Florida beaches” in the very early 70’s as a college bound teenager from Michigan looking for a good time and a great tan. What could an engineering and science librarian (me) have to say about a book on fishing you might ask? To that I can say…
Pretty obviously this is a book that would be classified as ‘nature writing’: writing that is ‘about’ ‘nature’. Scare quotes alert us to the possible problems, or questions. Like what is Nature after all? We all think we know, even as it is disappearing in many of its forms right before our eyes. Where are…
This unpretentious but affecting book by Jim Stenson is several books in one. Ostensibly a memoir about growing up in one of the world’s most legendary fisheries— South Florida’s estuary systems, “where the sweet meets the brine.” — Stenson guides us to crowded piers, mangrove forests, quiet havens and rip-roaring fish rodeos. Along the way…
South Florida’s Fishing Paradise is the kind of book you don’t get to see much anymore. Different in probably a couple of ways, First, It’s so well-written you might be hard pressed to recognize it as a ‘fishing’ book. Second, it’s a really good fishing book. And there have never been very many of them…
