Fly-Fishing the 41st: From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again: A Fisherman's Odyssey

James Prosek has eloquently demonstrated that angling is a kind of universal language. . . . he has taken us on an unforgettable journey. -- Thomas McGuane, author of The Cadence of Grass and The Longest Silence: A Life in FishingThe New York Times has called James Prosek the Audubon of the fishing world, and in Fly-Fishing the 41st, he uses his talent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure. Beginning in his hometown of Easton, Connecticut, Prosek circumnavigates the globe along the 41st parallel, traveling through Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Japan. Along the way he shares some of the best fishing in the world with a host of wonderfully eccentric and memorable characters.