Description: Encompassing stories from his childhood up to the present day, Dennis relates to the reader his discovery and love of fishing, the environment, and life on the water. Blending memory and observation, this book is an exploration of subjects with broad appeal--love of land and water, the appreciation of nature, and the outrage at changes capable of obliteration. Line drawings.
Brief description: Jerry Dennis writes for Smithsonian, Sports Afield, Gray's Sporting Journal, and The New York Times. His books, including It's Raining Frogs and Fishes, A Place on the Water, and The River Home, have won numerous awards and have been translated into five languages. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Michigan Author of the Year Award presented by the Michigan Library Association. He lives in Traverse City, Michigan.
Review Quotes:
"This writer-artist team shines a bright and lovely light on nature." --Los Angeles Times
"Enjoyable reading with beautiful, evocative illustrations." --Sports Afield "Jerry Dennis is one of a handful of superb younger writers who love angling deeply and write memoirs full of warmth, eloquence, and wit. A Place on the Water is a book of many robust-and fragile-miracles." --Nick Lyons, author of Spring Creek "This is a book that will remind you why you've always loved fishing, canoeing, and all the other things you can only do on the water." --John Gierach, author of Even Brook Trout Get the Blues