WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS: AN ANGLER IN MIDSTREAM. By Wayne Fields.

(1990) ND later reprint. 8vo (143 x 222mm). Pp252,i. Not illustrated. Pale green paper-covered boards, blue-green cloth spine titled in gilt.

"The meditation of a middle-aged man" on life and nature on a stream in Michigan's Upper Peninsula". What the River Knows is nothing less than a compelling confrontation with nature that is also an excursion down the river the river of the soul. It merits a place among the great books of its kind, those by Thoreau and Annie Dillard". (Richard Selzer)". ...the prose is calm and clear, the feeling is disciplined, the moods shift and turn, from happiness to melancholy... an affecting record of a man responding to the word and himself". (Irving Howe).