{"product_id":"9780826341501","title":"Royal Coachman: Adventures in the Fly Fisher's World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eRoyal Coachman\u003c\/em\u003e Paul Schullery is at once erudite emissary of the angle and consummate trout bum. And because not everyone can be both, we praise him as an American original.\"--James Prosek, author of \u003cem\u003eTrout: An Illustrated History\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Angler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few have as much passion for fly-fishing as Paul Schullery, and even fewer have his endless curiosity about the history of the sport, but it is his awesome talent as a writer that makes \u003cem\u003eRoyal Coachman\u003c\/em\u003e such fine and fun reading. He makes his passion, and his knowledge, so compelling that they become yours as much as his.\"--Gary LaFontaine, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dry Fly: New Angles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The title derives from one of the most popular and versatile flies available, and the book delivers some meticulous history on the subject of fly patterns and their creators. . . . He gets at the culture, the mechanics and the evolution of the sport in an engaging and informative way. He also undertakes the question . . . of whether or not casting a dry fly can truly be called an art with a capital 'A.' He is to be congratulated for doing so without the usual he-man bombast or Zen-master voodoo so often found in rod and gun writing.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118983856368,"sku":"9780826341501","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826341501_p0.jpg?v=1769911231","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826341501","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}