Water Lines: A Life on Marshes, Rivers, Seas and In the Rain

A luminous, deeply felt collection of essays from Riverhorse Nakadate-angler, musician, conservationist, and lifelong nomad-whose devotion to wild places and the healing power of water pulses through every page.For readers of Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, Mary Oliver, and Jim Harrison, this book is a soulful invitation to step off the grid and into the current. Across thirty-two essays, Nakadate paddles, hikes, casts, surfs, and canoes through landscapes as varied as the alpine lakes of Colorado, the salt marshes of his native Texas, the trout streams of Minnesota, and the mangrove swamps of the Yucatán.Whether he’s chasing redfish in a hurricane, rescuing baby squirrels or migrating monarch butterflies, or honoring his mother’s legacy with a canoe ride and a slice of sweet-potato pie, Nakadate writes with poetic precision and a fierce, tender reverence for the natural world and his fellow human travelers. At the heart of the book is a love for water in all its forms-river, rain, surf, sn