Roderick L. Haig-Brown is one of the world's most beloved fly-fishing writers. His classic books bring together exquisite prose, the full romance and beauty of fishing, and much solid angling advice. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his popular seasons books: Fisherman's Spring, Fisherman's Summer, Fisherman's Fall, and Fisherman's Winter. They chronicle a fisherman's year, from the brightening days of spring through a loving portrait of the author's home rivers in British Columbia during the summer, on into the excitement of fall fishing, to a winter away from his Campbell River, to fish the great rivers of Argentina and Chile. As Verlyn Klinkenborg has said, "It think it forms some sort of watershed experience in every angler's reading when he comes upon Roderick Haig-Brown for the first time." And so it does. The Seasons of a Fisherman is an excellent place to start.

Roderick L. Haig-Brown (1908-1976) was a Canadian writer, magistrate and conservationist. A prolific writer, he is the author of twenty-eight books and hundreds of articles, essays and poems. Some of the titles include Saltwater Summer (Governor General Award Winner, 1948), A River Never Sleeps, and Fisherman's Summer. In recognition of his contribution to Canadian environmental literature, the Haig-Brown name has been gifted to a national park near Kamloops, a Canada Council sponsored writer-in-residence retreat near Campbell River, and a mountain on Vancouver Island.

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"Haig-Brown is a star of the first magnitude."

Outside

"Haig-Brown is not only a naturalist of obvious authority, but the master of sinewy prose."

The New Yorker

"Not since Walton has there been a writer who can describe the joys of fishing as does Roderick L. Haig-Brown."

Boston Post

"Haig-Brown is among the few immortals in the field of writing about nature."

San Francisco Chronicle

"Reading a Roderick Haig-Brown book is an experience to be savored slowly and delicately."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer