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Tom Rowland Podcast

Chris Dombrowski - Body Of Water #0093

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Chris Dombrowski is from Michigan and is known far and wide for his debut nonfiction book, Body Of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, And The World’s Most Elusive Fish. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris and getting to hear about his story and what inspired this book as well as his other fictional publications. Chris is from Michigan and earned his MFA from Montana where he then published Fragments with Dusk in Them (2008), September Miniatures with Blood and Mars (2012), and the collections By Cold Water (2009) and Earth Again (2013). Chris is quite the poet and draws a lot of inspiration from an early reading of Norman McLean’s novella A River Runs Through It. Chris has earned awards and honors for Associated Writing Programs Intro Award, Alligator Juniper’s National Poetry Prize, and a runner-up for Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year. Chris still lives in Montana where he is a fly-fishing guide, director of the 406 Writers’ Workshop and the Beargrass Writing Retreat, and the Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana. Chris continues to write and teach alongside his many other gifts and is working on another nonfiction book. Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, was hailed in The New York Times Book Review; lauded as “finely wrought and profoundly life-affirming.” The book was called “a spiritual memoir in the tradition of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” in Orion magazine. Body of Water was named to numerous Best Books of 2016 list, and the American Booksellers Association placed the paperback on its Top Ten Indie Next Picks for 2017-2018. I highly recommend this book, you can click here and purchase it! Keep an eye out for more books from Chris and check out some of his older works and poetry!

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cause we speak the language primos.

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The border key is a small island, small little key off the far east end of Grand

1:06.2

Bahama, the east end that was just ravaged by Dorian, which we'll talk about, I

1:11.4

assume, a little bit later.

1:12.8

But Pinder himself had never fished for bonefish.

1:16.4

He had never flyfish for him.

1:18.8

He had of course caught them, you know, with handlines and he'd grown up on the East End foraging.

1:26.0

His father was a sponger and so when Drake hired him, hired Pinder basically to clear mangroves and and lug rocks off of the island that he

1:36.9

intended to develop for a fishing lodge he asked Drake asked Pinder,

1:43.7

come here, let me show you these fish here. Do you know where to find them?

1:47.6

And he pointed out a school of bonefish to David Pinder and David of course said, oh of course I do you know I've seen him I've seen him everywhere and

1:58.0

He wondered to himself you know Pinder wondered to himself what could Drake want with these fish you know they're they're full of bones and they don't taste very good and so on and so forth and so you know little did he know that the fish that he would go on the next year to guide Drake to,

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