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...Shoes of the Fisherman, West...
Lights & Inner Tubes. But try to catch one. No fish has a greater ability to bewilder, bedevil, confuse and confound a fisherman, and none, pound for pound, fights harder. Because it inhabits exposed tidal flats, the bonefish is a nervous wreck-always on the lookout for enemies, spooking at the shadow of a bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving...
...Shoes of the Fisherman, West...
White himself learned to fly and skin-dive, was a proficient cameraman, hunter, horseman, sailor, archer, painter, naturalist, fisherman, falconer. From a mind as chockablock as Merlyn's cottage-or his own-he could unlimber the rules of jousting, describe the nervous systems of fish, discourse on medieval cocktails (one favorite was called Father Whoresonne). He was the first scholar to translate a medieval Latin bestiary into English; he produced a minor classic on falconry (The Goshawk), wrote moving poetry...
...Shoes of the Fisherman, West...