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The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

De: Mark Kurlansky
Narrado por: Mark Kurlansky
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Bloomsbury presents The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing written and read by Mark Kurlansky.

National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod—the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish.

Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish—and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets—salmon, trout, and char; and for some, bass, tarpon, tuna, bonefish, and even marlin—are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky learns, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. There is an art, too, in the crafting of flies. Beautiful and intricate, some are made with more than two dozen pieces of feather and fur from a wide range of animals. The cast as well is a matter of grace and rhythm, with different casts and rods yielding varying results.

Kurlansky is known for his deep dives into the history of specific subjects, from cod to oysters to salt. But he spent his boyhood days on the shore of a shallow pond. Here, where tiny fish weaved under a rocky waterfall, he first tied string to a branch, dangled a worm into the water, and unleashed his passion for fishing. Since then, a lifelong love of the sport has led him around the world to many countries, coasts, and rivers—from the wilds of Alaska to Basque country, from the Catskills in New York to Oregon's Columbia River, from Ireland and Norway to Russia and Japan. And, in true Kurlansky fashion, he absorbed every fact, detail, and anecdote along the way.

The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing marries Kurlansky's signature wide-ranging reach with a subject that has captivated him for a lifetime—combining history, craft, and personal memoir to show readers, devotees of the sport or not, the necessity of experiencing nature’s balm first-hand.©2021 Mark Kurlansky (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Aire libre y Naturaleza Animales Ciencia Ciencias Biológicas Ecosistemas y Hábitats Mundial Naturaleza y Ecología Pesca

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It was hard for me to listen to this book as the narration is just not sharp between the sound quality and the voice. Please credit me thank you.

Narrator weak . Hard to understand

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This book was very informative however the audio quality was found to be non existent

The audio quality

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I’m glad mark kurlansky narrated this book as I think it was a work of passion for him…someone should have told him the quality of the recording was awful…this is the WORST book I’ve listened to on audible…it sounds as if I was recorded in a tin can and and was not edited whatsoever…this was disappointing…that being said the content was interesting if you’re an avid fly fisher…

Wait for a better narration of this book!

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Awesome content sadly they put no money into the audio book. Editing is nonexistent of the audio.

Awesome content and exactly what I was expecting

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This is purely conjecture, but I'm guessing that this book is Mark Kurlansky's passion project and was rejected by more mainstream publishers, so he decided to narrate it himself, perhaps in his bathroom.

Other Kurlansky books are among my absolute favorites, listened to over and over. Salt, Cod, and The Big Oyster are on my list of comfort books I can return to in times of need. Unfortunately, I don't see this one joining the list.

As a book, it's not that bad. I enjoyed most of the content, and I learned a lot more about fly fishing than I ever expected.

And even the performance isn't all bad, though he does sometimes sound rushed, like he's running out of breath and wants to finish a sentence before he passes out. I can ignore the tinny sound after a moment or two.

The real problem here is the editing, or lack thereof. Many times there are multiple takes of sentences repeated. Every narrator makes flubs. That's no big deal. But they're supposed to be removed from the final cut, and when they aren't, it takes us listeners our of the river and reminds us that we're listening to a book, not sharing a fly fishing experience.

That said, I had to laugh and felt camaraderie with Kurlansky toward the end when he took several tries to pronounce the name of a river in Maine and immediately joked about it.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who isn't a Kurlansky fan already or a dedicated fly fisher.

It isn't Salt, so take this one with a grain of it

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Great book, terrible audio and zero narration editing. Your slacking Audible. Should have had Grover Gardner narrate it.

Needs editing

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It was interesting and informative for anyone into fly fishing but performance and quality of recording made it almost unlistenable.

Buy the book, not the audio book

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I own this book and I thought I’d give it a second “read” while out on the river. You can actually hear email and text messages coming in during the recording. Sounds like it was recorded in-front of an open laptop through the integrated speakers and mic. Unlistenable—but definitely read the book!

Excellent book, Terrible Audiobook

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story is good. the reader has serious issues with the second half of the book. struggling to read, lisp, and lots of sirens in the background. at one point the reader even adds Un that they must have been drinking to name a lake something he could not pronounce.

reader sounds like he's dying

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Really enjoyed the history with Kurlansky’s personal history and the context it provides to the story. However, this was the worst audio performance I have ever listened too. The recording often sounds like he used his phone in a bathroom, it is completely unedited to remove his multiple blunders in reading, and the volume is constantly variable. However, the best part was when he is having trouble pronouncing an Irish lake’s name, and then blames it on the fact that Irish name things the way that they do because they drink. I will still read Kurlanksy, but he needs a real study and producer.

Good story, horrible performance

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