Faithful Travelers: A Father, His Daughter, A Fly-fishing Journey of the Heart ebook

by James Dodson

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Faithful Travellers' takes the reader from joy to tears as James Dodson mends his relationship with his seven-year-old daughter Maggie by taking her on a fly-fishing trip across America. The love between father and daughter is obvious from every page of this fabulous book.

A FLY-FISHING JOURNEY OF THE HEART take their sustenance from another source altogether. Following the death of his wife Theodore Roosevelt left his newborn daughter with relatives and fled to a ranch in the Dakota Territory. Interestingly enough, although many a fly are cast, some of which actually find the water, neither Dodson is of a mind to retain the fruits of their labor. James Dodson relates a pleasant tale remarkably free of the terror and mayhem which could easily be an essential part of a voyage as quixotic as this one. The only moment of difficulty comes when his truck breaks down during his return.

A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his . Based on the novel 'Faithful Travelers: a Father, a Daughter, A Fly-Fishing Journey of the Heart' by James Dodson.

A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.

FAITHFUL TRAVELERS A Bantam Book PUBLISHING HISTORY Bantam . For these and other high crimes of the heart I bestowed on him the nickname Opti the Mystic, a gently mocking moniker.

For these and other high crimes of the heart I bestowed on him the nickname Opti the Mystic, a gently mocking moniker. I admitted to him now, perhaps not too late, how much I’d loved those camping trips, the Medicine Bag, all of it, just being with him, wading in rivers, catching our supper, listening to him read to us by the fire.

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The pure girl-heart read him like anopen book. I fear that mine is fly-blown already and something the worse for wear. It can take care of itself.

Life is unraveling on golf writer Dodson-his much-loved father has died (written about poignantly in Final Rounds . But Dodson isn't really a laid-back fellow: He's wound tight as a clock; he is hyperattentive to his daughter; he is a fussbudget and a worry wart and a know-it-all.

Life is unraveling on golf writer Dodson-his much-loved father has died (written about poignantly in Final Rounds, 1996), now his wife wants a divorce-so to blow a little clean air through his spiritual fuel lines, he heads west on a camping/fishing trip with his daughter. Dodson only gets to take one of his two kids-Maggie, ""seven going on fifteen"" while brother Jack spends the summer with his mother, denizens, all, of ""the Brave New World of loving coparenting.

a father, a daughter, a fly-fishing journey of the heart. Published 1998 by Bantam Books in New York, USA.

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Faithful Travelers Liane talks to James Dodson, author of "FAITHFUL TRAVELLERS: A Father, His Daughter, A Flyfishing of the Heart" (BANTAM). Dodson is a regular columnist for GOLF Magazine.

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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Mr. Dodson is a wonderful storyteller and very skillful story weaver. As alluded to in my review of his Range Bucket List – which I enjoyed so immensely, I shared it with 15 or 16 of my golf friends – I really like his writing style. He recounts his story as if he’s sitting right next to you, telling the story directly to a close friend. He writes the way he speaks, a quality I’ve emulated since reading Rudolf Flesch’s The Art of Readable Writing as a teen. What I marvel at most is the wonderful closeness of his family, at all levels, and the direct way they communicate and learn from each other – I appreciate what a thoroughly remarkable experience that must be. Mr. Dodson hooked me here on two of my favorite passions, golf and trout fishing, but landed me on a revealing education of his family’s interactions, painful at times, funny, sharing, caring, with both tears and laughter – just like life as we know it. I thoroughly enjoy his work and recommend it highly.

EROROHALO

This book not only addresses a personal journey but bring to life many wonderful vacation & historical spots across the country. I gave it this rating due to its total context.

Steep

Purchased as a gift, I was told it was very good.

Arcanefist

Faithful travelers leads us on a journey across the United States with a Father and his Daughter. Fly fishing some of the best streams in the country from New York to Colorado. A few weeks in time spent between a father and his daughter from one of the best storytellers of the times, James Dodson.

Balladolbine

James Dodson, the author, is a terric writer. I really loved "Final Rounds" about his golfing trip with his dying father to Scotland. This book makes you want to keep up with his family and how they are doing since he wrote the book.

This is a tender story about his travels with his young daughter following his divorce. Both Mr. Dodson and his daughter are struggling with the divorce and this once in a lifetime trip helps them overcome some of their issues.

Buge

Wonderful, honest and warm story of modern family life.

Hulis

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.

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.