Maine's Golden Road

Affectionately named the Grandfathers'' retreats these sojourns into the depths of the Maine woods have inspired Gould''s finest and most emotionally resonant writing to date. With a naturalist''s sensitivity to his environment and his great good humor Gould writes of hiking through dense forests of fly fishing for salmon and trout in deserted creeks of campside culinary triumphs and of friendship and shared reflections on careers family and the modern world. The resulting book is a wonderful memorable meditation on the beauty of the Maine woods and on John Gould''s ever-interesting life.