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Title: Trout : An Illustrated History by James Prosek ISBN: 0-679-44453-X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 14 April, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 10 star must own for any serious trout fisherman/woman
Comment: I know so many fly fisherman who also do water colour painting, and I think the reason is, it takes the same light hand or wrist action to do both. And I know for a fact that the author paints from personal experience, which means he catches the fish and then uses it as his model so that he gets the painting done right. Not from memory or some photograph, but right there on the banks of the river or shore. And he has traveled the world and fished with the best, and his work shows this.
And to the negative reviewers, all I can say is if you think you can do better than he did, then do so. The fact his art has been show cased on ESPN and in art galleries around the world suggests to me that he knows much more than the few critics he has. Maybe its envy on their part.
I recommend ALL his books. And Yale University is fortunate to have had him as an undergraduate.
Rating: 2
Summary: It's art but is it good?
Comment: Being a scientific illustrator of fish, I dare say a few words about this book. These fish are pleasant to look at but the art work is no masterpiece. On my first attempts at color, i could easily do that kind of work.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very enjoyable, but the accuracy...
Comment: After reading the reviews on this one I was just giddy with anticipation when it arrived. Any book on fish or fishing is a good one, and this one promised to be very good.
I don't read new books front to back - I browse at first, and flipped through "Trout", very impressed with the number of species and the marvellous illustrations. Then I went to Brook Trout - the fish of my youth, and still the one nearest and dearest my heart. Very good illustration and text.
I then went to the front and started through, and as fate would have it the Arctic Char was first up. That's when I started to worry. You see, I live in the Canadian Arctic, and have seen lots of Arctic Char - literally tens of thousands. I've studied them, fished them, eaten them, read about them, and learned about them. I am no "expert", but I know a few things.
Th fact of the matter is that from reading the text accompanying the illustration of the Arctic Charr, it is obvious that Prosek knows little of them. For example, he writes, "Eskimos cut a hole in a lake through ten feet of ice, fishing with a piece of seal meat on an ivory hook." Do tell. It gets better with, "In summer when the rivers run free, they catch them in nets made of Musk-ox or caribou sinew." Really. That stuff would have been half truths two centuries ago - today it is just plain wrong.
Those lines are tourist fiction reminiscent of the hogwash written by the early arctic explorers who, after a trip up north, could return home and write any mix of truth and fiction they wanted - because nobody knew any better.
That's my problem with the book. He knows little of Arctic Char, but proceeded anyway to write an inaccurate text - without the qualifier - "by the way I don't really know this, somebody told me and I didn't have time to check it out". Thinking what? Nobody would notice?
It's the other species in the book that worry me now - the odd, rare, and primarily western ones I have not had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with. Is that stuff accurate?
Still a great and very enjoyable book, and I recommend it to anyone who loves (okay, likes) trout. Enjoy the illustrations - just don't count on the information without checking it out.
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Title: Go Fish by James Prosek ISBN: 1584790172 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Trout and Salmon of North America by Robert J. Behnke, Joe Tomelleri, Donald S. Proebstel ISBN: 0743222202 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Trout of the World by James Prosek ISBN: 1584791527 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Fly-Fishing the 41st : Around the World on the 41st Parallel by James Prosek ISBN: 0060193794 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Early Love and Brook Trout: With Watercolor paintings by the author by James Prosek ISBN: 158574039X Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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