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Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon
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Author:
Monte Burke
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
September 1, 2020
In Lords of the Fly, Burke examines the growing popularity of the tarpon, and chronicles the destruction brought on by greed, environmental degradation and the shenanigans of a notorious Miami gangster--and how all of it has shaped our contemporary fishery.
What The Reviewers Say
What Susan Orlean accomplished for the strange, hermetic world of orchid hunting in her 1998 classic The Orchid Thief, Monte Burke does for another strange, hermetic world in his wonderful Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World-Record Tarpon..
A fascinating look at the narrow but wild world of tarpon fishing.
Burke’s writing is vivid and lyrical.
