The author recalls his boyhood on a rough-and-tumble farm in the Ozark foothills, profiling his grandfather and uncle, two remarkable individuals who resisted modernity's encroachments and steadfastly pursued their own interests

The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Trout and Old Men

Middleton, Harry

Biographies & Memoirs

Simon&Schuster

The author shares his experiences fishing and hiking in the Smoky Mountains and discusses the history, people, and wildlife of the region

On the Spine of Time: An Angler's Love of the Smokies

History

Americas

Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Trout and Old Men

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Fireside

On the Spine of Time: An Anglers Love of the Smokies

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

A fly fisherman undergoes a year of self-discovery, meeting an assorted group of characters and journeying to the clear rivers of Colorado's high country and beyond

The Bright Country: A Fisherman's Return to Trout, Wild Water, and Himself

Rivers of Memory (The Pruett Series)

WestWinds Press

In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year 1965, a year rife with change in the world―and in the life of a boy whose tragic loss of innocence leads him to the healing landscape of the Ozarks. Haunted by indescribable longing, twelve-year-old Harry is turned over to two enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they farm and as elusive and beautiful as the trout they fish for―with religious devotion. Seeking strength and purpose from life, Harry learns from his uncle, grandfather, and their eccentric neighbor, Elias Wonder, that the pulse of life beats from within the deep constancy of the earth, and from one's devotion to it. Amidst the rhythm of an ancient cadence, Harry discovers his home: a farm, a mountain stream, and the eye of a trout rising.

The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men (The Pruett Series)

Biographies

This powerful story of one angler's adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains is a descent into wildness, a meditation on the landscape bathed in greenness and truth, and the discovery of a people living -- on the spine of time. From the solace of mountain streams to the frenetic bustle of Gatlinburg, one of Tennessee's great tourist towns, this memorable journey summons readers to confront the joys and sorrows of life through a new understanding of our place in nature and its process. Harry Middleton had to endure hardships to find the queen mother of all trout streams in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. He had to live through treacherous mountain roads, the cloud of airborne industrial toxins that shrouds the range for most of the year, an occasional blast of lightning, and, worst of all, a helping of rancid potato salad at a roadside diner. Like Norman MacLean in "A River Runs Through It," Middleton makes fly-fishing a religion with its own vision of nirvana, and if it takes an occasional descent into the nether regions to attain it, the author isn't afraid to supply the grisly details. This graceful, funny memoir belongs in every angler's library.

On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher's Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout (The Pruett Series)

Historical

When Harry Middleton lost his job at a prominent magazine, it was but the beginning of what turned out to be a year marked by personal crisis. In the course of that year, as he searched for new work and battled severe depression, he eventually ended up in Denver, where he began exploring the high mountain country west of the city. For Middleton, the turning point in his long journey through life's dark side came with the discovery of a blind brown trout in a Rocky Mountain stream where Middleton spent his every spare moment feeding what he calls his "terrible addiction" to fly fishing. That bright river and the blind trout would assume a larger significance and become for him a metaphor for struggle and survival. Middleton's terms with life as it is, with the fits and starts of the human condition, seems always to involve trout and fly fishing. 
 Middleton's books are dominated not only by memorable rivers and trout but also by some of literature's most colorful, comical, and fascinating people. The Bright Country is no exception. As we follow Middleton on his journey through the terrain of paradise and hell, we meet: Swami Bill, president and CEO of the Holistic Motor Court, Ashram &amp; Coin Laundry in Boulder, Colorado; his main squeeze, the heartbreakingly beautiful Kiwi LaReaux; a short-order cook who spends his nights on the roof of a west Texas hotel looking at the night sky through a cracked telescope; there is the life and death of truth, Dr. truth; the seductive Mi Oh, hostess at the Now &amp; Zen restaurant in Denver; and, of course, the blind brown trout in its blind eyes Middleton finds not dead shadows but living light.

Westwinds Pr

Rivers of Memory

Pruett Publishing Company

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