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River Monsters: True Stories Of The Ones That Didn't Get Away (2011)

by Jeremy Wade(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0306819546 (ISBN13: 9780306819544)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Da Capo Press

review 1: I’m a big fan of the River Monsters show, so when I saw this in the discount pile at Half Price Books, I snapped it up. I love monster stories and monster legends, which is why I originally started watching this show.I went into this book with expectations, which were only partially met. The first half of the book focuses on his early life and travel before the River Monsters TV show, delving into the reasons, in part, for his philosophy on travel and catch and release fishing. The first half is the best part of the book, I loved reading about his first travels, where he flies halfway across the world with only $200 and a dream. About his struggles to live up to the expectation of a corporate job and life.The second half of the book has chapters taken directly out of the... more River Monsters show, focusing on the Arapaima, the Goliath Tigerfish, the sawfish, freshwater sharks, and more. I had hoped to get more details about these trips from these stories, but for the most part these chapters are blow-by-blow recaps of what was seen on TV, with very little extra information. Unless one is a serious fishing ethusiast, who wants to know the niggling details of how he does his casts, how he picks his lures, this section doesn’t hold much of interest.Overall, this is a fun read if you can’t get enough of River Monsters host Jeremy Wade, and want to know more about the man and what drives him.
review 2: I am a huge fan of Jeremy Wade and the tv show, River Monsters, and I was excited to read more about his journeys. I was, however, unprepared for the beautifully written book that Mr. Wade has crafted. Each perfect sentence joins the last to form paragraphs and chapters that paint places and experiences in incredibly vivid detail. From the opening gambit to the closing line, this book is a full on, rapid fire adventure tale! less

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