"Bright Rivers" chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters. A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers.
Published in 2014 with a new foreword by the author. Originally published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lippincott, 1977.
“Nick Lyons enters the select company of the finest writers in the genre with his new book about his experiences on the ‘bright rivers’ he has fished from the Catskills to Montana.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A superb piece of writing.”
—Philadelphia Bulletin
“Wonderful fireside reading, a grand book.”
—Baltimore Sun
