George Black, Author . Random $23.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6396-3
In the rarified world of bamboo fly rod making, names like Ed Payne and Sam Carlson, and their progeny, acolytes and apprentices, stand like giants, casting long shadows that stretch from the dawn of modern American fly-fishing in the late 19th...
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George Black. St. Martin’s, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-312-38319-0
Black (The Trout Pool Paradox) takes the reader on a momentous and bloody ride through the terrain of the unconquered West. Black warns readers against “presentism”—“the danger of relying on contemporary values to pass moral judgments on people of a
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George Black, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (327p) ISBN 978-0-618-31080-7
At the heart of the trout pool paradox and Black's work is the notion that the "limpid currents at the base of waterfall" are where both fish and factories flourish. To plumb this irony, Black follows the history of Connecticut's...
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George Black, Author, Robin Munro, With John Wiley & Sons $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-471-57977-9
After the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, China's communist leaders scapegoated ``black hands,'' individuals portrayed as sinister conspirators who supposedly manipulated the masses. Based on scores of interviews with participants in China's...
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George Black. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-05735-8
Hoping to write a book like the ones “early English travelers packed in their portmanteaus,” Black (Empire of Shadows) launched himself on a 1,500-mile trip down the river of legend whose “magnetic field” draws “devotees of the sacred and the...
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George Black. Knopf, $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-593-53410-6
Journalist Black (Empire of Shadows) delivers a fascinating study of the ongoing repercussions of the American war in Vietnam. The focus is on a relatively small group of American, Canadian, and Vietnamese scientists, politicians, and military...
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