222 fi rst time in David James Duncan’s Th e River Why. In “Dick Cheney, Dick,” Metcalf writes of an encounter with Vice President Dick Cheney and his Navy SEAL entourage on Idaho’s Snake River, ultimately concluding that Cheney’s conduct on the water wouldn’t even measure up to the rules of Metcalf ’s second grade recess. Moreover, while never overly preachy, essays like “Th e Last Steelhead” do carry environmental commentary on the historic abuses the West has levied against both rivers and their inhabitants. Metcalf writes, “It is diffi cult now to reconcile the stories I have heard from oldtimers with what I see during steelhead season. We make sloppy the value of the wild” (75), before listing the sheer number of dams steelhead have to navigate on their journey up the Salmon River to spawn. “Lay Me Down” discusses climate change through the lens of knowing a river system and making sense of a complex global crisis in the context of what a fl y fi sher is able to personally observe. Ultimately, this easy-to-read collection of brief essays is suited to any western angler, but it also has much more to say about life, loss, and dealing with human frailty. As Metcalf notes, “the more one fl yfi shes, the more one realizes there is a wider correspondence to the great secrets of life” (142– 43). While it is unfortunate that Metcalf never quite gets as vulnerable as his Reel Recovery compatriot Ed does in “Bone Deep,” he does acknowledge the struggles both physical and emotional that result from his cancer, seemingly concluding that, through fl yfi shing and cancer, both medicine and magic can coexist in equal measure. Cory Willard University of Nebraska– Lincoln

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海龟跳动的心脏：丹尼斯·洛 (Denise Low) 的《一个家庭的 Lenape 生存故事》

222 第一次出现在 David James Duncan 的 The River Why 中。在“迪克·切尼，迪克”中，梅特卡夫写到了在爱达荷州的蛇河上与副总统迪克·切尼和他的海豹突击队随行人员的相遇，最终得出结论，切尼在水上的行为甚至不符合梅特卡夫的第二个规则年级休息。此外，虽然从不过分说教，像“最后的钢头”这样的文章确实对西方对河流及其居民施加的历史性虐待进行了环境评论。梅特卡夫写道：“现在很难将我从老前辈那里听到的故事与我在硬头秀季节看到的故事相协调。我们草率地评价了野生动物的价值”（75），然后列出了必须在鲑鱼河上游产卵的大坝的绝对数量。“Lay Me Down”通过了解河流系统和在飞行者能够亲自观察的背景下理解复杂的全球危机的角度讨论气候变化。最终，这本通俗易懂的短文集适合任何西方垂钓者，但它也有更多关于生命、损失和处理人类弱点的内容。正如梅特卡夫指出的那样，“飞得越多，人们就越意识到与生命的伟大秘密有更广泛的对应关系”（142-43）。不幸的是，梅特卡夫从未像他的卷轴恢复同胞埃德在“深骨”中那样脆弱，但他确实承认他的癌症导致的身体和情感上的挣扎，似乎得出的结论是，通过飞钓和癌症，医学和魔法可以平等地共存。