The Secret Lives of Fishermen: More Outdoor Essays

The Secret Lives of Fishermen is Jim Dean’s second book of essays celebrating wild places, rural traditions, and the pleasures and often humorous frustrations of fishing, hunting, hiking, and camping — or, as Dean might put it, “messing around” outdoors. It combines essays originally published in his monthly “Our Natural Heritage” column in Wildlife in North Carolina with longer pieces that appeared in other magazines. These forty-six engaging essays are arranged in a loose chronicle of the...