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Water Music
Of Salmon, Saabs and Spey Rods

by David R. Swanson

$75 Suggested Retail. Tall Man Outfitters' Price $65*. Personalized inscriptions by the author are available for an additional $10*.

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"With a sharp eye and a keen and energetic sense of adventure, the author at 33 years old sets out on yet another trip to northern Norway to fish for Atlantic salmon to three spectacular rivers: the Stordalselva, the Namsen, and the Bjora. David travels and fishes through Norway’s pristine landscape with his friend and guide Truls Ronning, and together with a gleaming new Saab 9-3, they cover most of the pools and riverbanks holding both newly-arrived salmon from the North Sea and an international mix of anglers and characters you won’t forget.

Refreshingly free of the expert fisherman posture, David examines and experiences the Northern life and its fishing with affection and with his eyes wide open. In clear, fresh and vivid prose, the author revels in the ever dependable return of the salmon and his return to the Nordic North – both magnificently pulled by the sun to the land where it never sets. The author’s artful, evocative black-and-white photographs illustrate this memorable book."

A signed edition in a Clamshell Box 6 x 9 / 124 Pages ISBN: 1-886967-09-1

Water Music is David Swanson first book. He's best known for his work as photographer and specifically a war correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He began his career with The Inquirer as a freelance suburban photo correspondent in 1986 while still in college. He joined the staff full time in 1997. He went on to cover conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and the Russian republic of Georgia, and the rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan. Swanson spent March & April 2004 in Iraq where he was is embedded with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, photographing the fighting in Ramadi. Images from those weeks made the front pages of many major U.S. newspapers as well as Time magazine. Swanson was honored by the World Press Photo Foundation in 2005 for one of his Iraq images.

When not photographing the worlds conflicts, or traveling in Scandinavia Swanson makes his home in Wallngford, PA with his wife Laila and daughter Ingrid. David's local stream is Ridley Creek near his home but he's just as likely to be found fishing the spring creeks of central Pennsylvania.

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