A Father, His Daughter, a Journey of the Heart.
Scarred by the abrupt ending of his eleven year marriage, James Dodson embarks on an odyssey across the ancient heartland of America in search of clear-running streams, swift, elusive fish, and the eternal truths that only nature can provide. His goal: to heal his wounded spirit, and to explain the vagaries of life and love to his seven year old daughter, Maggie.
So, with his fishing rod and his ageing retriever Amos, Dodson and Maggie set out in his beat-up truck "Old Blue" to follow the timeless lure of America's mighty peaks and rivers. Along the way Dodson discovers a great deal about fly-fishing and about America; above all he learns about the special relationship that can exist only between a father and his daughter.
'Faithful Travellers' is a beautiful meditation on the bond between parent and child and on the nature of love and loss. In his wise and appealing new book, James Dodson shows that sometimes life isn't what happens while you're waiting to go fishing; sometimes it happens while you're there.
