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A celebration of fly fishing, alternately lyrical and meditative, mystical and sensuous, each of these 16 essays represents an exploration of the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, trout and people, ghosts and dreams. Whether Werner is describing his first and last time fly fishing as a boy on a stream in northern Maine or the golden evenings he and his wife cast to Apache trout cruising in the dim mountain...

In Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns -- Death and Coexistence in the American West, Werner recounts the two-and-a-half years he spent tracking down and looking after a wolf pack that was rumored to have settled in the Centennial Valley of southwest Montana. Along the way he encounters and reflects on the lives of other animals, including deer, elk, fox, coyote, skunks, and grizzly bears. But he also encounters other humans too-ranchers, hunter...

Cold Blessings is at once lyrical and meditative, mournful and celebratory. The book is both timely and relevant even as it honors the poetics of the past. Readers will hear echoes of Whitman and Rilke, Roethke and Wright, and yet at no time will they ever doubt that Werner's voice is wholly his own.

In The Bone Pile: Essays on Nature and Culture , author Maximilian Werner uses the vehicles of fly fishing, every day experience, and some of our most sacred rituals to explore the origins and limitations of our behavior and ideas. These essays range from the quasi-mystical to the polemical and from the polemical to the ecological. However different each of these essays may be, together they represent an incisive study of human and nonhuman li...

With startling insights, Werner explores how our Pleistocene instincts inform our everyday decisions and behaviors in this modern day Walden.

Um das Medizinstudium seiner Tochter zu finanzieren, vermietet der verwitwete Taxichauffeur Bänz ein Zimmer an Toni, einen jungen Fussballer, der in das Mädchen verliebt ist. Nachdem Toni vom Fussballclub wegen fehlender Leistungen fallengelassen wird, bringt Bänz ihn in 'seinem' Taxiunternehmen unter. Doch Toni versagt auch hier. Er macht immer wieder Schulden und fährt schliesslich nach Konstanz, um im Glücksspiel zu Geld zu kommen. Hier ver...

Crooked Creek follows the lives and deaths of the Wood family. Having fled Arizona to escape involvement in the plunder and sale of stolen Native American antiquities, the family seeks support in Heber Valley, Utah. But from the moment Preston and Sara Wood ride into that seemingly idyllic valley, they learn that life there is not as it appears, and no matter how far they run they cannot escape the past. Crooked Creek is a warning to us all th...

The sound of parenthood is the sigh.” So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the authors' experiences of growing up and struggling with their demons, Werner's shows how old demons sometimes return on the heels of something as beautiful as children.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Musikwissenschaft, Note: 1, 0, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Die Geschichte des Dings, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Gitarre ist ein Instrument, das seit dem Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts eine immer größer werde Rolle in der Instrumentenwelt eingenommen hat. In vielen Musikbereichen hat sie ihren Platz gefunden und ist nicht nur in ...