"James Prosek haseloquently demonstrated that angling is a kind of universal language. . . . hehas taken us on an unforgettable journey." --Thomas McGuane, author of The Cadence of Grass and The Longest Silence: A Lifein FishingThe New York Times has calledJames Prosek "the Audubon of the fishing world," and in Fly-Fishingthe 41st, he uses histalent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure.Beginning in his hometown of Easton, Connecticut, Prosek circumnavigates theglobe along the 41st parallel, traveling through Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Japan. Along the way he shares some of the bestfishing in the world with a host of wonderfully eccentric and memorablecharacters.