The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by Coggins, David
The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by Coggins, David

The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven...
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SKU: 9781668004692
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Author: David Coggins
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Language: English
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The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by Coggins, David

The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

$49.17
The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by Coggins, David

The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

$49.17
Author: David Coggins
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven extraordinary fly-fishing expeditions--"an engaging personal journey about finding what you need to find and keeping it in your heart" (Kirkus Reviews).

In The Optimist, David Coggins tackled the techniques of fly-fishing and meditated on its virtues, recounting his triumphs and failures. Now, in The Believer, he deftly mixes travel, local cultures, further fishing challenges (some knee-buckling in their disappointment), and details his own experience as life and love crowd his time to fish. Self-consciously--and self-deprecatingly--Coggins embarks on seven far-flung fishing voyages, away from screens and social media, not answering his phone, and reveling in humanity's undying yearning for a quest, for the rituals and rites of passage that mark transition.

For Coggins, these journeys--to Norway, Scotland, Spain, Cuba, and Argentina, as well as road trips to Wyoming, Tennessee, and the Catskills--not only showcase his skill as an angler but also signal the end of his fly-fishing youth. But that doesn't mean that Coggins will sell all his rods and hang up his hat; rather, his relationship with his fly-fishing obsession will evolve--especially if he can catch an elusive salmon or a ferociously strong tarpon or the mercurial permit.

The Believer is a humble, humorous call for the journey that is as enriching as the destination, where the search for greater self-awareness leads to patience, observation, and endurance. And, since this is fly-fishing, after all, there's always the possibility of abject failure and leaping, glorious reward. Wry, entertaining, thoughtful, and relatable, The Believer is "a wonderful example of how well angling can weave us into the world" (Gray's Sporting Journal) and will hook both anglers and non-anglers alike.

Author: David Coggins
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 03/11/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781668004692
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