For the first time together, River Trilogy combines three classic works on fly fishing by W. D. Wetherell. Contained here are some of Wetherell's most poetic pieces, a combination of spontaneous journal entries, reflections on contemplative excursions, and outright fishing tales. Each passage is filled with moving imagery describing the beauty of the river and the natural world that surrounds it. The first book in the collection, Vermont River, is an elegy to the author's love of fly fishing in his native Vermont. Selected by Trout magazine as one of the thirty finest works on fly fishing, Vermont River will move readers with its radiant descriptions of Wetherell's beloved sport and region. In Upland Streams, Wetherell explores the meandering streams and crooked creeks that dot New England's landscape, the mighty rivers that flow through the Southwest, and the crags and lochs that fill the countryside of Scotland. Conveyed with characteristic humor and introspection, Upland Streams chronicles moments of life lived close to nature in all its majesty. One River More, the final volume in the collection, begins as a traditional chronicle of trout fishing in Vermont and Montana. It quickly, however, becomes a rich exploration of some of the most essential human experiences: love of nature and love of family.
"W. D. Wetherell is a good fisherman, a better writer, and a most agreeable companion who has a deep feeling for the natural world in which his quarry swim."
Chicago Tribune
"Wetherell writes about fishing with an angler's love for the sport and a novelist's eye for detail."
John Gierach, author of All Fisherman Are Liars
"Wetherell defends the plain pleasures of his sport and the environmental purity to sustain it, as well as what he, a novelist, calls 'the wild upland province of words.' He moves naturally from the beauty of a Copper Run trout to Beauty itself . . . He has a naturalist's eye, glorying in the things mankind has not yet sullied, grieving for those we have."
