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A wryly told, delightful melange of footloose chronicles by a sometimes anxious wanderer. Maxwell ( I Don't Know Why I Swallowed the Fly , 1997) is rather like the rest of us: wary of small planes and rushing rivers, yet also fond of wildlife. Unlike some of us, however, she gamely runs Idaho's Salmon River, takes a 37-hour train ride across the Gobi Desert (insidious grit stormed the failing shell of that old railroad mollusk'), and snorkels among whales. Fly-fishing is Maxwell's raison d'tre, and readers will happily follow her as she searches for steelhead trout on a wild and secret Washington river and fishes a Mongolian waterway reputedly containing the heftiest salmon on earth (up to 200 pounds apiece). One need not be a fellow traveler to appreciate her jaunts; Maxwell's prose is wittily light-hearted. Repulsed by said Mongolian salmon, she declares, I'd be damned if I was going to set a world record with a fish that looked so much like Quasimodo in a mermaid suit.' During an uncharacteristically urban trip to Italy, she comments, If the Italian Renaissance painters had been dentists, their dentures would have looked like Venice. Arcaded and cupolaed, welded together with fa

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Author

Maxwell, Jessica, 1955-

Publisher

Seal Press : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781878067982

Category

travel

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.42 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14