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Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Alluring Fish
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About Body Of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, And The World's
Product Description Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passionspoetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami. Thus began a journey that would lead to the Bahamas and to David Pinder, a legendary bonefishing guide. Bonefish are prized for their elusiveness and their tenacity. And no one was better at hunting them than Pinder, a Bahamian whose accuracy and patience were virtuosic. He knows what the fish think, said one fisherman, before they think it. By the time Dombrowski meets Pinder, however, he has been abandoned by the industry he helped build. With cataracts from a lifetime of staring at the water and a tiny severance package after forty years of service, he watches as the world of his beloved bonefish is degraded by tourists he himself did so much to attract. But as Pinder’s stories unfold, Dombrowski discovers a profound integrity and wisdom in the guide’s life. Review Best Book of 2016: Bloomberg and Big Sky Journal Selected as a Top Ten favorite for the Indie Next List (Winter 2017-2018) “A brilliant book. Destined to be a classic.” ―Jim Harrison “Dombrowski’s writing exhibits a poetic sense of economy. There’s a tremendous amount of information here on the geological, botanical, biological and human history of the region, but the author uses only what’s necessary to the story and relates it in evocative, concise language that reminded me of Gary Snyder one minute and John McPhee the next. Dombrowski’s exacting descriptions of the sport make me long to try it again―and to wish that more fishing books were written by poets.” ―Wall Street Journal “Brings to life the remarkable natural beauty of the bonefish flats and their flora and fauna. The portrayal of this complex ecosystem left me with deep concern for how much longer this treasure will last in the face of global pressures on our oceans and environment.” ―Robert Rubin, in the 2016 Best Books issue of Bloomberg “Dombrowski elevates the fly-fishing-as-meditation narrative by the sheer fact that he’s so damn good at writing about it. There’s prose and practicality in equal parts, so the allure of the sport comes through.” ―Outside “ Body of Water is about bonefishing, but it is also about ecosystem exploitation, class conflict, wealth inequity, race relations, Bahamian history, mentor-mentee relationships, nature as the catalyst for self-awareness, and more. . . . The lyrical narrative strikes a delicate balance between reflective memoir and reportage.” ―Minneapolis Star Tribune “Part love letter to fishing, part natural history of the Bahamas, part conservationist manifesto, and part meditation on the self . . . . Dombrowski’s talent as a writer is on full display here, his tight and rhythmic prose reminding one of the gentle and relaxing lap of water against the hull of a fishing boat on a sunny and windless day.” ―Indie Next List (Winter 2017-2018), chosen by Lane Jacobson, Flyleaf Books “A lyrical, genre-defying tribute. Drawing on Caribbean history and the evolution of fly-fishing, Dombrowski’s foray into nonfiction proves thematically complex, finely wrought, and profoundly life-affirming.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) “This gorgeous work wastes not a word on fly-fishing basics. It dives Moby-Dick deep into a famed sport and livelihood's very essence, and never leaves. In the hands of veteran trout guide and poet Dombrowski, the ‘Abraham’ of Caribbean guides, David Pinder Sr., becomes the perfect embodiment of the near mystery religion that is saltwater-flats fishing. Via the hearts of two men utterly in love with the wounded world in which their calling takes place, Body of Water then pours forth beauties, subtleties, dark history, and insight with an unforced lyrical power I associate with no lesser word than ‘masterpiece.’
