Thanatopfish

by Stephen Sloan

Original art by James Prosek

Titled after the iconic American poem, "Thanatopsis", by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), the author sets out on a most unusual tour of the earth's great oceans and fishing grounds visiting and examining the state of the world's fisheries. Sloan has fished these waters over a lifetime of expert angling, from Henryville, Pennsylvania, with its plump, native trout, to the west coast of Africa billfishing aboard his Rybovich, the Nan-Sea. This is a narrative tour de force and a book you will never forget.

Privately published for the Fisheries Defense Fund

An edition of 500 copies signed by Stephen Sloan & James Prosek

6x9 / 112 pages / Slipcased

$125.00 U.S. Postpaid

Thanatopfish is not just another how-to, where-to, or even why-to fishing book. In this imaginative and fictional (but all too sadly true) story of his own afterlife, Stephen Sloan has crafted a love letter to oceans and their fish, a sober reckoning of waste and destruction, a sobering look at the future, and, maybe, a promise of hope. Only a master angler could have written Thanatopfish; only another angler can fully appreciate this little book's beauty and sorrow... - Art Scheck