Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress

By James R. Babb

Book Overview

In this volume, James R. Babb recounts his early days with a cast of colourful and bizarre local characters in a small East Tennessee town. He tells of his migration through Brahmin Boston to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585744948
• ISBN13: 9781585744947
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Nicely done

Perhaps my title is insufficient. The progress is more or less identical to what any reasonable human being would want in the late 20th and early 21'st century.A man of insight, regrets, decent moral grounding and capable of facing the difficulties of the realities of ecology (a/k/a Cranes and Rainbow trout) James Babb has molded a life worth living. Would that we were all so talented and perceptive. A biography more than a fish story is to be had here.

more than fish

Babb is one hell of a writer, and Crosscurrents is about more than just fish and antique split bamboo rods. It's about one man's spiritual journey from his boyhood home in the hills of East Tennessee to the lobsterman's life in the cold North Atlantic, to the hills of Maine, where he now resides. Plenty of adventures along the way, unforgettable characters, cultural observations, literary and historical allusions, and some really fine writing. I've never thrown a dry fly in my life, but I loved it, anyway. Bravo, Mr. James Babb!