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Uncommon Waters: Women Write about Fishing

by Holly Morris

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ISBN13: 9781878067760
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In this enthralling anthology, 34 contributors, including Margaret Atwood and Ted Gallagher, provide the literary answer to why women have gone, and will always go, fishing. Includes a list of fishing organizations and resources for fisherwomen.18 illustrations.
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Table of Contents

  1. The long light /Le Anne Schreiber
  2. The emerger /Mallory Burton
  3. Abe Lincoln fished here /Lin Sutherland
  4. Boat ride /Tess Gallagher
  5. King Bait /Keri Hulme
  6. The young woman and the sea /Lorian Hemingway
  7. Woman's hour has struck /C.R.C. --Jesus, Pete, it's a woman fly fishing! /Mary S. Kuss
  8. Fishing /Linda Hogan
  9. Border Water /Gretchen Legler
  10. Fish /Judith Barrington
  11. Where i want to be /Joan Salvato Wulff
  12. The treatise of fishing with an angle /Dame Juliana Berners
  13. Paul Bunyan: my woolly bugger chucking machine /Jennifer Smith
  14. For a moment or so /Shirley Gilley
  15. Ahn-ka-tee /Marya Moses
  16. Sapphire sea /Carletta Wilson
  17. One for the glass case /Lewis-Ann Garner
  18. The fishing hour /Betsy Brown
  19. Thoughts from a fishing past /Janna Bialek
  20. Cut and paste /Jean Rysstad
  21. Fishing for eel totems /Margaret Atwood
  22. Without a backward cast: notes of an angler /Katharine Weber
  23. Currents /Sabrina Sojourner
  24. The bassing gal /Sugar Ferris
  25. Fly fishing folly /Ailm Travler
  26. Fishing the white water /Audre Lorde
  27. A little short of the record /Elizabeth Enright
  28. The search for the sword /Albia Dugger
  29. A day in the life /Mari Lochhaas
  30. Ice fishing /Joan Ackermann
  31. A buncha guys, a coupla fish, and me: the opening of trout season, Roscoe, New York /Viva
  32. Magadan luck /Nancy Lord
  33. Mentors /Mallory Burton
  34. Casting in the fog: reflections on a fishing sister /Mary Ellis.
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ISBN:
9781878067760
Subtitle:
Women Write about Fishing
Editor:
Morris, Holly
Preface:
Page, Margot
Illustrator:
Scott, Sandy
Editor:
Morris, Holly
Author:
Morris, Holly
Preface:
Scott, Sandy
Author:
Page, Margot
Publisher:
Seal Press (CA)
Location:
Seattle, Wash. :
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Fishing
Subject:
Fishing stories
Subject:
Women fishers
Subject:
Fishing - General
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references.
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
February 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.99x5.96x.92 in. 1.04 lbs.
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