Faithful Travelers | 
 enlarge | Author: James Dodson
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 758855
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0553378880
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
EAN: 9780553378887
ASIN: 0553378880
Publication Date: September 1, 1999
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Product Description
In Final Rounds, James Dodson told the poignant story of the golf trip of a lifetime with his terminally ill father. Now, armed with a fly-fishing rod and reel, he embarks with his seven-year-old daughter on an equally memorable journey across America in search of clear-running streams, swift elusive fish, and the eternal truths that only nature can provide.
It has been said that life is what happens while you're waiting to go fishing. Only weeks after his eleven-year marriage abruptly ended in an amicable divorce, James Dodson decided to go on a fly-fishing pilgrimage west. His goal: to heal his wounded spirit and explain as best he could the vagaries of life and love to his beautiful, precocious seven-year-old daughter, Maggie.
With his beat-up truck, Old Blue, and his aging retriever, Amos, Dodson and Maggie travel without plans or reservations, following where the spirit--and the lure of America's mighty rivers--leads them, on their way to one of America's grandest treasures: Yellowstone National Park. On the way, Dodson discovers a great deal about fishing, about America, and about the special relationship that exists only between a father and daughter.
They travel from the Adirondacks, once a fly-angler's haven, to the mist-shrouded Niagara Falls. From the Michigan lakes where Ernest Hemingway roamed as a boy to small-town county fairs. From the majesty of Mount Rushmore to the mysticism of Harney's Peak, where Black Elk had his legendary visions, to finally the fly-fisherman's paradise of the San Juan River. Together father and daughter are bound by a tie as resilient and unpredictable as a fly-fisherman's line. For as the emotional waters in which they fish become ever more turbulent, Maggie's unspoken feelings of grief, anger, and blame begin to surface--a depth of hurt that forces Dodson to face his own unacknowledged pain and, worse, leaves him feeling helpless to make everything all right in his daughter's life again.
Yet if fly-fishing has taught James Dodson anything, it is the rewards of patience, of following the wisdom of the course of the stream, the unexpected revelations reflected in still pools, and, of course, an abiding belief in plain dumb luck. With a little of each, these faithful travelers will find their way home again.
Literate, honest, and deeply observant, Faithful Travelers is a beautiful meditation on the bond between parent and child and the nature of love and loss. In Faithful Travelers, James Dodson proves that sometimes life isn't what happens while you're waiting to go fishing: sometimes it happens while you're there.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 A different fly fishing story September 4, 2007
It was a delightful read of an insightful odyssey. A must read for every fisherman who is blessed with a daughter. A must read for every fisherman who has faced recent personal crisis. Dodson weaves opportunities for refelection within the passages of a fine story.
A Must for Fathers and Daughters December 30, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I LOVED this book! It reminded me so much of my relationship with my own father. He always had some interesting new fact to share with his daughter, yet he is willing to listen to what she has to say, and possibly learns more from her than he taught her himself. A must read for any father or daughter.
Looking into the Mirror December 22, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was no doubt a tough book to write, but a wonderful book to read. Jim Dodson left his home to take a fishing trip with his daughter. But what he was really doing was trying to unravel what went wrong with his marriage, what his daughter thought of this new event, and what the future might bring. This human and humane book is funny and sad, sometimes all on the same page. Most of all, it is honest. Three cheers to Dodson for being willing to take this journey and then sharing it, no emotions barred.
Great Book August 10, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are the father of a young daughter, you owe it to yourself to read this book!
 so so July 13, 2002
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
This guy makes a killing off of family difficulties. First, in Final Rounds his dad is dying and so he cashes in and writes a book about it. Now, because his career is more important than his family, he gets a divorce and then uses this tragedy to take his daughter on a fishing trip, all the while milking it for material for another book. I just could not get past the fact that I simply did not like the narrator. This guy loves his job and he loves rubbing his elbows with famous people and he loves telling you about it.
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