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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
BOOK ONE: THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
1. “Gus the Fish”
2. The Rogue River Fishing War
3a. Concerning Statistics
3b. Some Biographical Statistics
4. Statistical Improbabilities
5a. The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: The Parental Version
5b. The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: My Own Rendition
6. Excerpts from the God-notebook
7. Being “Educated” and “Gittin’ Brung Up”
8. The “Ideal Schedule”
9. Voiding My Rheum
BOOK TWO: THE UNDOING OF A SCIENTIFIC ANGLER
1. Where I Lived and What I Lived For
2. Water on the Brain
3. Anvil Abe and the Phantom Fisherman
4. Fainting Before the Duel
5. I Reckon
6. Anamnesis
BOOK THREE: CHARACTERS IN NATURE
1. The River Writes
2. Neighbors
3. The Warble of the Water Owl
4. Eddy
5. Jesus Keeps Fishing
6. Descartes
7. Philosophizing
8. Little, But Strong
9. Closing the Door
BOOK FOUR: THE LINE OF LIGHT
1. Hemingway
2. Dutch
3. Nick the Convert
4. The Trek
5. The Raven and the Why
6. Googler and Mangler
7. Trick or Treat
8. The Line of Light
BOOK FIVE: AT THE END OF THE LINE
Last Chapter
Afterword: Three Reflections in the Key of Gratitude
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by David James Duncan
Praise for David James Duncan’s "The River Why"
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright
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