Hooked: Fly-fishing Through Russia

by Fen Montaigne (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $9.25

  Having served in Moscow as a staff correspondent during the last days of the Soviet Union, Montaigne longed to return to Russia to explore the nothern areas unknown to him. With rivers and lakes in abundance, he decided to fly-fish his way across Russia, from the Solovetsky Islands, 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle, to the wilderness of the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. As well as being an account of an American in his mid-forties discovering himself in alien territory, this book is also a history of Stalin's Gulags.

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  Paperback
  1999

  $4.77

  In the last days of the Soviet Union Fen Montaigne worked in Moscow as a staff correspondent for The Washington Post. Once back in the States, he longed to return, not least to a part of Russia unknown to him - the northern arc. With rivers and lakes in abundance he decided to indulge a passion and flyfish his way across the continent, from the Solovetsky Islands, 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle to the wilderness of the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian far east. Like Paul Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar) or Bruce Chatwin (In Patagonia) there was a sense of quest, a need to meet these wasteland inhabitants - these 'real Russians'. Fishing, he deduced, would also be a great adventure, as many of the rivers and lakes have been untouched by the kind of pollution that has wrecked the equivalent fishing in northern America. He was not disappointed. Hooked is a rich account of a rare journey