| Told
through the eyes of a longtime
Montana fishing guide and itinerant fishing bum, A Good Life Wasted
offers a unique perspective on an implausible period in the recent
history
of human civilization. When Dave Ames started guiding, Rocky Mountain
locals
rode horses and dug camas roots; now they're trading stock options on
cell
phones. The collision of stone and computer ages was short-lived, but
the
deep-rooted themes of this book remain.
A Good Life Wasted - a
chronicle
and celebration of the fishing-guide life - is poignant and spiritual;
it's Blackfoot Indians and copper miners' daughters; it's fiddles and
guitars
and the fabric of space; it's about what happens to wild people when
the
wilderness is gone.
|
A Good Life Wasted
or Twenty Years as
a Fishing Guide
by Dave Ames
The Lyons Press, 2005
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