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Bird, Butterfly, Eel |
Coming Spring 2009 from Simon and Schuster
Bird, Butterfly, and Eel, spend their summers on the same coastal farm, but in the fall they go to very distant and different places. Their journeys to the far reaches of land and sea make them remarkable creatures. James Prosek uses these creatures' stories and his own sun-kissed paintings to introduce young readers to the basic elements of bird, fish, and insect migration.
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The Day My Mother Left |
Jeremy’s whole life changed the day his mother left. When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine year old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. More
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Tight Lines: Ten Years of the Yale Anglers' Journal |
Founded in 1996 by undergraduates James Prosek and James Furia, the Yale Anglers' Journal plays the heartstrings. Its widely varied contents - poetry, essays, letters, humor and adventure narrative - seem to encompass the breadth and depth of human experience. More
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A Good Day’s Fishing |
What’s the secret to a good day’s fishing? James Prosek illustrates the essentials, in his first children’s picture book. The flies, lures, spinners and bobbers in his tackle box are depicted in colorful watercolors and defined in the helpful “Lure and Fly Glossary” located in the final five pages of the book. More
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Trout of the World |
From the rare Tigris Trout of Eastern Turkey to the Cutthroat Trout of the Russian Sea of Okhotsk, James Prosek brings to life 100 trout from around the world. Trout of the World is the product of six years of travel and research around the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North Africa. More
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Fly-Fishing the 41st From Connecticut
to Mongolia and Home Again: A Fisherman’s Odyssey |
James Prosek begins Fly-Fishing the 41st with, “One day, I left in a straight line from home at 41 Kachele Street, east along the 41st Parallel, following my passion for fish. It was a journey not only away from home, but toward it; which is the beauty of traveling in a circle, and the irony of adventure.” More
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Early Love and Brook Trout |
This poignant and revealing memoir, includes brilliant images and watercolor paintings of spawning brook trout from Quebec to Georgia, fishing with his best friend, Taylor; his relationship with young love, Whitney; his rowing days at Yale; his relationship to old game warden, Joe Haines; and a night spent trapped in a cabin during a flood at the foot of the Smoky Mountains. More
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A Connecticut Yankee Follows
in the Footsteps of Walton: The Complete Angler |
As a senior at Yale, James Prosek won a traveling fellowship to follow in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, the seventeenth century author of The Compleat Angler. The book became his obsession and along Prosek’s pilgrimage through England, he made friends and fished the waters Walton had fished over three centuries ago. More
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Joe and Me: An Education in
Fishing and Friendship |
When James Prosek was fourteen, a ranger named Joe Haines caught him “poaching” from a reservoir nearby Prosek’s home in Easton, Connecticut. Instead of running from the old man in the green uniform, Prosek surrendered only to find himself a new friend and mentor. More
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Trout: An Illustrated History |
James Prosek’s first book catalogues more than 70 native trout from North America in brilliant watercolor paintings. More