Noodling For Flatheads

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Hardcover
2001
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Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written, wonderfully funny and movingly nostalgic book explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky, cock-fighting in Oklahoma, frog-ranching in Georgia and coon-hunting all over, to the noodling for flatheads (fishing for catfish, using your fingers as bait and your arm as a hook) of the title.

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Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written, wonderfully funny and movingly nostalgic book explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky, cock-fighting in Oklahoma, frog-ranching in Georgia and coon-hunting all over, to the noodling for flatheads (fishing for catfish, using your fingers as bait and your arm as a hook) of the title.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Edition: 1st
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 04 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0434008060
ISBN 13: 9780434008063
Book Overview: A wonderfully entertaining exploration of the strange habits, customs, traditions and obsessions of the American South, in the tradition of The Lost Continent and The Orchid Thief.

Noodling For Flatheads

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