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`Every time I leave the world of work, family and community to wade into a river with fly rod in hand, I enter a sacred space that sometimes finds expression in the written word.'
In
Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates-avid anglers, both-put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall with fondness the `company of rivers' each is grateful to know, providing a glimpse inside a sporting culture teeming with literature, art and music.
Part memoir, part objet d'art and part field guide,
Casting into Mystery will delight passionate fly fishing practitioners and armchair anglers alike.
About the author
Robert Reid is a writer, journalist, and avid angler whose career in journalism spanned forty years. Reid got his start writing for newspapers in Strathroy, St. Thomas, Timmins and Simcoe before he landed a position covering arts at the
Brantford Expositor, and later, the
Waterloo Region Record. He reported on a wide range of cultural activities from London to Hamilton to Toronto, and served as a lecturer, literary judge and arts commentator, as well as a writer, interviewer and associate producer on a couple of syndicated arts programs produced for television. He was the first non-fiction writer to be appointed Writer-in-Residence at the University of Waterloo. Since his retirement, Reid has continued to write about his passions-art and culture, malt whisky, dining and travel, and especially fly fishing-on his website at www.reidbetweenthelines.ca.
