“There’s a certain honing of spirit that comes in the pursuit of fish contributing editor T. Edward Nickens in his new book of true adventure tales, (Lyons). “I leave the woods or water with a more purposeful set of my shoulders, sharper of mind.” Nickens has spent decades writing about his sporting escapades—flats skiff fishing in the Caribbean, wading Appalachian trout runs, and hunting across every holler and hill in his home state of North Carolina. Here, he threads his stories from with powerful reflections on losing his father as a boy and finding a mentor in a marine sharpshooter who taught him to connect what’s wild inside to the wildness outside.
