From your revered Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer, comes his National Bestseller using one of the world’s oldest and most popular activities, fishing. Shown in narrative type like a conversation between a Fisherman as well as the Stranger, Hersey pulls upon his own experiences and passion as the fisherman reflects on the age old sport, offering his very own insights and thoughts. From your depths from the ocean towards the creatures close to the shore, Hersey properly answers why fishing continues to be such an essential part of mankind.

“Almost no one has answered “why fish?” better than Mr. Hersey . what he does best of all is evoke question.”-New York Times Book Review

“Blues is, of course, about much more than the pleasures and techniqu3es of fishing; it is, as Fisherman tells Stranger, about interconnections-the ties between mankind as well as the organic world, among others.”-The New Yorker

“Wonderful . . . He provides us a rich and vivid sense of ocean existence. . . . The whole lot is really as stately being a minuet, so that as elegant.”-Chicago Sun-Times