Charity Andrews

BOOK REVIEWERS WANTED!

FREE eBook edition of author and outdoorsman Todd Bruce’s
Nine Passes: Fly Fishing through the Past and Present of the High Sierra (published February 2015 by Black Swift Press)
in exchange for an honest review. 

Nine Passes, Todd Bruce’s deeply personal account of his 300-mile backpacking expedition through the Sierra Nevada, is informed by the author’s vivid sense of history and enduring love of the land. Retracing the route of Charles McDermand, an outdoorsman and writer whose landmark 1946 travelogue The Waters of the Golden Trout Country sparked a national interest in the region, Bruce draws upon his fly fishing expertise and his keen familiarity with the land to illuminate the subtleties of the Sierra Nevada’s flora, fauna, and topography.

Bruce’s five-week trek took him along McDermand’s seventy-year-old route, where he hiked the back country, fished the lakes and streams, and climbed the high mountain passes…