The Secret Lives of Fishermen: More Outdoor Essays

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The Secret Lives of Fishermen is Jim Dean’s second book of essays celebrating wild places, rural traditions, and the pleasures and frequently humorous frustrations of fishing, hunting, mountaineering, and camping–or, as Dean might put it, “messing around” outdoors. It combines essays in the beginning published in his per month “Our Natural Heritage” column in Wildlife in North Carolina with longer pieces that seemed in other magazines. These forty-six engaging essays are arranged in a loose chronicle of the sporting year, but they seldom follow predictable routes. From a whimsical story about discovering live wood ducks in a cabin stove to a poignant memoir of summers spent in a remote riverside shack, the entire pieces are bound by a conviction that our resources and time are limited and our finest memories are shared.

The title notwithstanding, not the entire essays in The Secret Lives of Fishermen are about fishing, nor are readers more likely to discover any shocking secrets–unless they’re surprised to be informed that fishermen and hunters have myriad interests and seldom measure success by the collection of fish caught or game bagged.

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