It is much to author Paul Schullery’s credit that someone not really interested in or familiar with fly-fishing can read several chapters of “Royal Coachman: Adventures in the Fly Fisher’s World” ($17.95, University of New Mexico Press) and find themselves not only intrigued but rather captivated. The paperback offers a series of essays that meander through thoughts on the outdoors, on ties, on being a trout bum or a sort of fly-fishing elitist, all peppered with ruminations on life and humorous irreverence. Schullery, who received the Wallace Stegner Award from the University of Colorado Center of the American West, is clearly passionate about the subject, as well as about the outdoors and the writing craft. The title refers to the most well known of fly-fishing ties.
