Casting and Mending

Casting and Mending How Therapeutic Fly Fishing Heals Shattered Minds and Bodies

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Publisher's Synopsis

Casting and Mending shares the voices of breast cancer patients, veterans, and recovering addicts as they reflect on the often life-changing and life-affirming experience of fly fishing. Henry David Thoreau wrote, "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." That notion, that fishing is about more than catching fish - that it offers tranquility, reflection, and recovery - is at the heart of scores of programs across the United States that use fly fishing to promote physical and emotional healing. This book tells the story of several of these programs, including the voices of breast cancer patients, veterans, and recovering addicts as they reflect on the often life-changing and life-affirming experience of fly fishing. It also traces fishing in history and popular culture as a source of solace and redemption; explores the science of the healing effects of nature; and makes a case for fly fishing as an instance of "flow," an optimal experience that leaves a person stronger, more confident, and refreshed.

Book information

ISBN: 9781939125972
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: RIT Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 799.124
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20220617
Language: English
Number of pages: 280
Weight: 454g
Height: 152mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 13mm