Call number
Collection
Publication
Description
This is a love story; an unlikely convergence of two people from different worlds who were able to make a rich and tender life together, and not only endure each other's company in alarmingly close quarters but revel in it. Edith Iglauer was born in Cleveland and lived an urban, sophisticated life in New York until she met and married John Daly, a commercial fisherman in British Columbia. She spent more than four years on his forty-one-foot troller, the Morekelp until his sudden death. John Daly was an impassioned and greatly talented fisherman who was convinced that he could "think like a fish"; an amateur philosopher who worked out, and followed, an orginal set of beliefs and principles; a mystic who, after forty years of fishing, felt himself to be at one with the sea and the mountains along the British Columbia coast; a scholarly looking, high-spirited, full-blown eccentric who covered the white walls of his pilothouse with his favorite quotations in bold black letters ("Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke. O.W. Holmes") Fishing with John established Edith Iglauer as one of BC's most popular writers. This unusual West Coast love story sold 16,000 copies in hardcover and continues to be a bestseller in paperback.… (more)
User reviews
Edith and John were only together four years before his death but probably they were the best years for each of them. After John's death Edith sold the MoreKelp but stayed in BC. As she says on the last page:
When John died, I thought of course I would return to the United States to live, but it was too late. I had come too far in another direction. With the new pair of eyes that John had given me, I could not go back to what I had been before.
Edith is still alive and writing according to her website. A movie starring Jaclyn Smith and Tim Matheson was made of this book but it was renamed Navigating the Heart.