Pat Neal 
Wildlife 
Volume 3: the Fisherman’S Holidays

Fishermen like holidays because they keep other folks off the water. The way they celebrate traditional holidays like Thanksgiving, obscure holidays like Arbor Day, and as yet-to-be-declared holidays like National Cabin Fever Day depends on whether one fishes or not.

In Wild Life: Volume Three: Fishermans Holidays, author Pat Neal examines our unrealistic expectations toward holidays through a collection of previously published newspaper columns. Written from his research as an historian and the wild and wooly life of a guide on the rivers of the Olympic Peninsula, these stories attempt to answer the eternal question: why cant the Skunk Cabbage Festival last all year? Gleaned from the commentary page of The Peninsula Daily News, Neal offers a years worth of fishermans holiday stories.

Wild Life provides humorous insight from a fishermans point of view into a host of holidays from Thanksgiving to the solstice to election day and more.

Про автора

Pat Neal, a fishing guide, began writing the newspaper column Wild Life in 1998.These stories offer a natural history of the Olympic Peninsula based on his research as a historian for the Washington State Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation and the life of a guide. He lives among big trees along the Hoh River. This is his fourth book.