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Title: Excellent Journey!
Review: I first encountered Steven Rinella's writing through Outside Magazine... but didn't know it. I later picked up "American Buffalo" as a recommendation by my father and immediately recognized his style. "Scavenger's Guide" is no different and is written in the same common yet elegant tone that I've come to expect from Rinella. The way in which Rinella introduces his characters is as if he is painting the mona lisa with a wagner power painter. With one or two shots and somehow he manages to convey all the detail you would need to give each characters eulogy, or wedding speech. Between the elegant simplicity of the building of his characters and settings, Rinella masterfully stitches together numerous "spur trails" into a single voyage spanning topics such as conservation and culinary history, personal growth, friendship and relationships. And there is no shortage of good old fashioned fishing stories. An excellent read.
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