Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. "It is a truism among anglers that the deepest Jerusalem Creek: Journeys into Driftless Country by [Leeson, Ted].
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- Jerusalem Creek : journeys into driftless country
- Jerusalem Creek: Journeys into Driftless Country
- JERUSALEM CREEK: Journeys into Driftless Country
- Fly Fishing through Driftless Country
Jerusalem Creek : journeys into driftless country
Ted Leeson is the author of the widely acclaimed The Habit of Rivers. Spring creeks streams rising from subsurface aquifers loom large in Leeson's angling life, even though less than one-thousandth of all trout water flows in them. This book's 15 essays explore the spring creeks that Lesson has fished in "Driftless country" on the Illinois-Wisconsin border, a region mysteriously spared alteration by the great Wisconsin glaciers.
Although spring creeks and Wisconsin geography are somewhat arcane subjects, Leeson brings them alive with style and insight in this remarkable memoir, one of the last books edited by angling great Nick Lyons. Leeson's writing displays the same thoughtfulness and beauty evident in his first book, Habit of Rivers , but this time the pace is faster, and there is more wit.
Remarkably, there is no fishing in the book's first third, and when Leeson does describe his forays into the spring creeks, it is always without jargon and with a vivid sense of place and context. The text is peppered with allusions to books and films Hemingway and Hitchcock's The Birds ; marvelous reflections on Wisconsin farms, taverns, cows, and cheese; references to English writers Halford and Skues, also devotees of spring creeks; and even a touch of baseball.
Jerusalem Creek: Journeys into Driftless Country
Like the best fishing books, his account transcends its topic; its audience should be not just those who read the great fishing writers Lyons, Barich, Gierach but also those who savor the nonfiction of Annie Dillard, John McPhee, and William Least Heat-Moon. They become our private archetypes The images of people, the reflections of other times and places are mirrored in a silver surface, and fishing becomes a form of memory, and memory a form of return.
Leeson's finely woven recollections and thoughtful meditations on the natural world drive these essays, as he considers everything from bees to Amish farms to the special qualities of trout fishermen.
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He recalls becoming a fishing fanatic at the age of 14, describes his favorite fishing companions his brother and their old childhood friend, nicknamed "Lizard" and tells of a medieval custom called "beating the bounds," in which older villagers taught young boys the limits of their rural hamlet by banging their heads against trees and other boundary markers. Occasionally Leeson's reveries drift into vague sentimentality, but for the most part he keeps them grounded with anecdotes and facts about the natural history and geography of his native region.
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Fly fishing -- Wisconsin. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Nov 12, Jim Aker rated it liked it Shelves: Ted Leeson is a highly literary writer given to esoteric language. He writes from the core of things examining their place and function in the whole scheme of how the world works. His "The Habit of Rivers" is pure and clean and just as it should be.
It is wonderfully written.
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Jeruselem Creek is an earlier work and is also well crafted anthology of stories. It concerns itself with the author's youth growing up in the upper mid-west, his family and friends and his introduction to fly fishing sprin Ted Leeson is a highly literary writer given to esoteric language. It concerns itself with the author's youth growing up in the upper mid-west, his family and friends and his introduction to fly fishing spring creeks in a geological anomaly known as the driftless area.
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It is an evolutionary tale charting the beginnings of a lifetime of fishing adventures. I recommend it to the dedicated angler. Jun 21, Scott Burrell rated it liked it.
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