Author: Edwin N. Wilmse
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: flies, journeys
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226900185
ISBN-13: 9780226900186

From 1973 to 1994, anthropologist Edwin Wilmsen lived and worked among the Zhu, Mbanduru, and Tswana people of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Thousands of miles from his home, immersed in what first seemed a radically different place, and operating in languages he initially did not understand, he began a record of his impressions and reflections as a complement to his scientific fieldwork. Journeys with Flies weaves together the multilayered experiences of his life among these Kalahari people, capturing at once the intellectual challenges an anthropologist faces in the field and the m

Author: Lydie Salvayre
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Keywords: flies, power
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 2007-11-26
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1564784207
ISBN-13: 9781564784209

The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committed a crime, and he must now explain himself. But instead of letting the judge, lawyer, and psychiatrist question him, he asks himself all the questions—and answers them.While ranting on to the court about various topics—his family, the museum where he works as a tour guide, and even the French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal—the narrator of The Power of Flies reveals himself to be both calculating and unstable. In this latest novel from acclaimed French writer Lydie Salvayre,

Author: Bill Cosby
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: flies, time
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1988-11-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0553277243
ISBN-13: 9780553277241

America’s #1 media personality and bestselling author delivers a light-hearted, highly personal yet universally appealing look at the different ages and stages through which we live and learn. A book for every age. HC: Doubleday.

Author: Ed Engle
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: flies, small, tying
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2004-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0811700828
ISBN-13: 9780811700825

Taking trout on lightweight rods with flies as small as size 20 and 30 is a challenge. Learn to imitate midges’ trailing shucks and drowned adults, tie tiny parachutes and white-winged Tricos, and create patterns that mimic micro-caddis and micro scuds. Engle covers small fly history, tying tools, and materials. Tips on fishing techniques come from Ed Engle’s 30 years of experience fishing small flies on the South Platte River. Included is information on choosing the right hook, thread, wire, and amount of weight for small flies.

Author: Cheryl Coughlan
Publisher: Capstone Press(MN)
Keywords: insects, flies
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2000-08
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 073684886X
ISBN-13: 9780736848862

Introduces some of the characteristics of flies that includes information on their eyes, feet, and eating habits.

Author: Ed Jaworowski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: flies, saltwater, essential
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-01-10
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0811734595
ISBN-13: 9780811734592

Essential Saltwater Flies gathers in one handy volume the best flies--including the Deceiver, Surf Candy, and Gotcha--for catching the most sought-after saltwater species. Ed Jaworowski distills the many saltwater flies available today to the essential, innovative flies that are the foundation of the sport and shares tying techniques and tips as well as knot-tying instructions and notes for fishing the flies. Modeled after the bestselling Essential Trout Flies (9780811727488).

Author: Bob Veverka
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: flies, saltwater, innovative
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1999-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0811709027
ISBN-13: 9780811709026

*90 color photos * 8 x 11 * Patterns and recipes for 271 flies from 37 top innovators * Profiles and photos of the tiers * Flies for Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Mexico, the Caribbean "An excellent addition to historical documentation of the sport."--Kathleen Achor, editor of The American Fly Fisher On Michael Radencich’s color plates of flies: "I’m out of superlatives for his work."--Christopher Camuto, Gray’s Sporting Journal, February 1998 This sumptuously illustrated reference is organized by tier, with background information on each expert’s saltwater fishing ex