Little Rivers: Tales of a Woman Angler - Tapa dura

"This splendid collection of essays, reprinted from periodicals like the New York Times, Rod & Reel, and Trout, is remarkable especially because Page is able to be lyrical while writing matter-of-fact prose. The book's charm is enhanced by [her] personal history." Publishers Weekly "As lovely, lyrical, and irresistible as a spring creek ... a graceful intertwining of fishing yarns with meditations on the sorrows and pleasures of life." author Jerry Dennis "One of our most respected angling writers, Margot Page can't write an ungraceful sentence. I'll take this elegant book any day." Fly Rod & Reel Magazine "The kind of lucidity, wit, and passion that makes writing that endures. Margot Page has the freshest, most original eye fly-fishing literature has been blessed with in years." novelist W.D. Wetherell "This gorgeously illustrated, tight-knit little collection of essays is a joyous book, full of rich generational dimensions, and informed throughout by the life of water. The essays range widely and are full of wonderful anecdotes." poet John Engels "Gracious and gracefully written ... notable among angling books ... Page seems to know where to draw the line and when to put the snapshots back in her wallet. At her best, she writes in a well-schooled lyric realism that reminds me of Gretel Ehrlich of The Solace of Open Spaces, one of the finest recent books about the West." Fly Fisherman Magazine "A unique look at the world of fly fishing and at one woman's place in it." Indianapolis News "Author Margot Page has written this for every woman who has ever thought about fly fishing. Page's graceful prose in 'Little Rivers' describes the differences between men's and women's approaches to fishing; it also deal with issues in life." Gazette Telegraph, Colorado Springs "Here's the unusual fly-fishing book by a woman, one who is, moreover, an angler who knows what she is doing and doesn't have to take second place to any fisherman. Page refreshingly doesn't present the pumped-up prose most male fisher-writers indulge in. Rather, she just tells a few tales about her fishing experiences, producing a book, that is a kinder, gentler read than we normally get from its genre. An enjoyable read that anglers should take the time to get to know." Booklist "While more and more books seem to reach too far, try too hard, and claim too much, there are a few that are content to be, modestly, what they are and to say to the reader, merely, 'Enjoy.' So many books are physically heavy and intellectually ponderous that you come across something like Little Rivers by Margot Page with relief and delight. It is the kind of book that reminds you of what people mean when they talk about reading for pleasure." American Way Magazine "Page adds a touch of light poetry to a genre little known for graceful writing." Kirkus Reviews

The expanded edition of the ground-breaking memoir Little Rivers: Tales of a Woman Angler remains the premiere literary narrative of a woman in the male-dominated sport of fly fishing. In essays described as "luminous," Little Rivers features the chronicles of Margot Page's evolution from reluctant student to passionate angler to married, angling young mother, to divorced, desk-bound angler.

In this eloquent, acclaimed book, Margot Page continues her strong, evocative presence in the canon of fly-fishing literature. She invites us to her home river, Vermont's marble-banked Battenkill, to Cape Cod saltwater fishing for striped bass, to Montana's big waters, to the wild Alaskan landscape, and, most compellingly, to the passages that run through her life and echo our own.

The new essays include a rare window into the founding years of the national nonprofit Casting for Recovery, of which she is a founding member. 10% of all proceeds from the sale of the new Little Rivers will be donated to Casting for Recovery which provides free retreats in 41 states across the U.S. helping breast cancer survivors through the therapeutic sport of fly fishing. 

The author of three nonfiction books, Page is a former contributor to The New York Times and her essays have been anthologized in numerous publications.