River Monsters
True Stories of the Ones That Didn't Get Away

First, I should mention I'm going to marry Jeremy Wade, so I'm entirely biased and adore every word out of his mouth. I did the audiobook version read by him, so all the better. I enjoy fishing, though I'm no good at it, and I love good monster stories that lean toward folk legend. That all said, fu......more

River Monsters is, by a long way, the best book about fishing I’ve ever read. Yet, it is so much more than a book about fishing. While Jeremy captures the precise chaos of fishing in a paradoxically perfect convention defying descriptive style, he does so lovingly. Fishing can be a fairly brutal hob......more

I didn’t quite like it; I was expecting more than just a recount of his catches. I was expecting a deeper look into his career. Also, his writing style wasn’t for me; I often caught myself daydreaming between lines.......more

This book reads like you are sitting down for a pint with Jeremy, and that is exactley how it should be.......more

Englishman Wade is the craggy-faced host of Animal Planet’s River Monsters whose motto is that "there is more to this world than what’s visible on the surface." Where you and I wake up groggy on Opening Day and try for a trophy perch, Wade travels to far-away places like the Himalayas looking for, s......more