Middleton, Harry – ON THE SPINE OF TIME – 1991 1st edition – 237p – Simon & Schuster, NY – This author is arguably considered by many to be America’s best angling writer ever. His life and early death would, by itself, make an interesting book. The author fished, hiked, and explored the Great Smoky Mountains that straddle the Tennessee-North Carolina border for years. In this book he gives us his appreciation of this unique landscape, the hundreds of miles of mountain streams that trout love, the breathtaking beauty of mountain ridges stretching unbroken to the horizon, the surprise of a southern landscape that rises vertically into the Canadian zone. He includes a look at the eccentric and fascinating people who call the area home, but this is also a meditation of the passing of time, set against the ancient geology of the Smokies. – Book is very fine in very fine dust jacket. - $55.00