Step into the wilderness as we celebrate the release of Water Lines: A Life on Marshes, Rivers, Seas and in the Rain with Riverhorse Nakadate—Patagonia Fly-Fishing Ambassador, adventurer, musician, journalist, and environmentalist—and enjoy a screening of Reindeer Journals, a short film featuring Riverhorse that serves as an ode to wilderness and living simply.
About Water Lines
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A luminous, deeply felt collection of essays from Riverhorse Nakadate, whose devotion to wild places and the healing power of water pulses through every page. Across 32 essays, Nakadate paddles, hikes, casts, surfs, and canoes through landscapes as varied as the alpine lakes of Colorado, the salt marshes of his native Texas, the trout streams of Minnesota, Lapland in the Arctic Circle, Africa, and the mangrove swamps of the Yucatán. Whether he’s chasing redfish in a hurricane, rescuing baby squirrels and migrating monarch butterflies, or honoring his mother’s legacy with a canoe ride and a slice of sweet-potato pie, Nakadate writes with poetic precision and a fierce, tender reverence for the natural world and his fellow human travelers. For readers of Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, Mary Oliver, and Jim Harrison, this book is a soulful invitation to step off the grid and into the current.
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Riverhorse Nakadate is a Patagonia Fly-Fishing Ambassador, adventurer, environmentalist, and musician whose writing can be found in numerous surfing, guitar, and fly-fishing magazines. He has starred in three films: Love & Water, A Northern Light, and The Reindeer Journals. The recipient of the first-ever Texas BHA Leadership in Public Land and Water Conservation Award, he resides in a 1910 bungalow in a historic district of Houston.
