FISHING THE TONGARIRO: A History of Our Greatest Trout River by Grant Henderson (Bateman Books, $59.99 hb)
It’s fitting that a review of a book dealing with one of the world’s great fishing rivers begins with a bow to Izaak Walton.
“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing,’’ Walton wrote in his 1653 book The Compleat Angler.
And a discourse is what you receive in Grant Henderson’s exhaustively researched history