The American Fisherman: How Our Nation’s Anglers Founded, Fed, Financed, and Forever Shaped the U.S.A. Audiobook (Free)

From your Duck Dynasty star and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a rollicking popular history of fishing in America.

American Fisherman traces the impact angling has already established in shaping America’s history, and reveals the important role they have played in defining our lives. Willie Robertson persuasively argues that America became what it really is today in no small part due to the fishermen that contact it home. From harvesting New Britain cod to take flight fishing for Yellowstone trout to raising Pacific about The American Fisherman: How Our Nation’s Anglers Founded, Given, Financed, and Forever Shaped the U.S.A. Northwest salmon, the fishing industry has long played an important role in the establishment of several of the country’s earliest ports, especially along the East Coast. Robertson explores how fishing has informed our culture, in literature, films, and tv, from classics like The Old Man and the Sea, A River Runs Through It, and Moby-Dick to AN IDEAL Surprise, In the Center of the Sea, as well as the Deadliest Catch, to popular local television fishing programs from coast to coast.

Robertson also analyzes the economics of this $50 billion annual business which supports a bunch of industries, including tourism and manufacturing, as well seeing that conservationism. Told in Robertson’s wonderful down-home tone of voice, American Fisherman is certainly a spirited and exclusive look at America and its own people.