Reviews
Jeffrey Cardenas' journal of his six-week
sojourn in the Marquesas is delightful--fine observation of marine
natural history and a subtle feel for a silent and beautiful place, the
whole infused with a reflective harmony born of the writer's
uncommon contentment in his isolation.
Peter Matthiessen
The fishing is great, but Marquesa
is much more than a book about great fishing. Jeffrey Cardenas' book is
a meditation, an evocation of a place so perfect and sensuous that
putting it down gave me a momentary sense of loss and nostalgia
for a place I have never yet been. It was like stepping into a Walter
Anderson painting.
Stephen
Bodio - Fly Rod & Reel
And what a beautiful and
articulate tribute it is. Cardenas provides enough fly-fishing action to
satisfy any reader's appetite, but he also offers much more; a compact
textured history of the Marquesas, close observation of their native
fish, birds and plants, and a healthy dose of the sort of thoughts and
insights that occur to people when they are alone in an enchanted place.
Steve
Raymond - Fly Fishing in Salt Waters
Every man should want to
live in the element he professes to be passionate about. Jeffrey
Cardenas did, for six weeks, and then wrote about it with the honesty
and elegance of a gentleman.
Guy de la Valdene
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