Fishing the River of Time
Text Publishing, $29.95 hb, 224 pp
Memoir
Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor
by Carol Middleton •
This is the modest memoir of a remarkable man. At the age of eighty, geologist Tony Taylor travels from Sydney to Vancouver Island to meet his eight-year-old grandson Ned and take him fishing on the Cowichan River. Half a lifetime earlier, in 1968, Taylor had spent a formative two years in that wilderness. He is eager now to give his grandson the same education.
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