This is a book report on David James Duncan's book My Story as Told by Water. David James Duncan is many men. He is a novelist whose The River Why is ranked by The San Francisco Chronicle as thirty-fifth among the twentieth century's 100 best books about the American West, and whose The Brothers K was lauded by The New York Times and the American Library Association. He is an essayist whose graceful prose appears in such journals as Harper's and Orion. He is a literate fly fisherman in the vein of Norman MacLean and Thomas McGuane, publishing articles in such piscine periodicals as Gray's Sporting Journal. And he is a ferocious, furious, and occasionally hilarious environmental activist; publishing bristling rants and icily reasoned articles in green venues like Sierra.
