Body of Water

Body of Water
Nonfiction

Body of Water

A Sage, A Seeker, and the World's Most Alluring Fish
“Evocative, exacting” —WALL STREET JOURNAL
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A Bloomberg Best Book of 2016

Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions—poetry and fly-fishing; one child, with another on the way; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: Can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami.

Thus began a journey that would lead to the Bahamas and to David Pinder, a legendary bonefishing guide. Bonefish are prized for their elusiveness and their tenacity. And no one was better at hunting them than Pinder, a Bahamian whose accuracy and intuition were virtuosic. He knows what the fish think, said one fisherman, before they think it.

By the time Dombrowski meets Pinder, however, he has been abandoned by the industry he helped build. With cataracts from a lifetime of staring at the water and a tiny severance package after forty years of service, he watches as the world of his beloved bonefish is degraded by tourists he himself did so much to attract. But as Pinder’s stories unfold, Dombrowski discovers a profound integrity and wisdom in the guide’s life. 

Keywords: 
adventure, anglers, Bahamas, bonefish, Caribbean, catch and release, conservation, Ecology, environmental, fishermen, fishing, fly fishing, guide, history, islands, journey, memoirs, Montana, oceans, outdoors, overfishing, poets, rods, sea, sportsmen, tourism, travel, trips, wisdom
ISBN:
9781571313645
Publish Date: 
08/08/2017
Pages: 
240
Size: 
5.5 × 8.5 × 0.5 in
Weight: 
10.6 oz
Author

Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.

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