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The Last Guide's Guide: To family, money, fishing, and everything else that matters
How to raise good kids and spot bad ones. What you need to know about politics. Why you should fish. Twelve things you’d be crazy not to have in your home. These are some of the lessons contained in The Last Guide’s Guide, a sequel to Canadian bestseller The Last Guide. In The Last Guide, readers met Frank Kuiack, the last fishing guide in Algonquin Park. It was a book the Toronto Star called “a homage to a vanishing way of life� and acclaimed author Roy MacGregor said would “feed the soul forever.� Now Frank is back, with a guidebook to what he has learned in seventy years of fishing. Written over four years, it is a rollicking return to Algonquin Park, with Leacock-like tales of politics, heat waves, bass fishing, the Ambassador of Rock Lake and Frank’s eightieth birthday party. The Last Guide’s Guide is the guidebook the world has been waiting for. A how-to manual on fishing, making money, cooking a shore lunch, falling in love and “practical stuff people can use. Not the stupid stuff.�
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 19, 2017
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August 7, 2023
A lovely way to catch up with Algonquin Park fishing guide Frank Kuiack since the end of The Last Guide. The author distills a series of lessons from fishing trip conversations with Kuiack, distilling his straightforward wisdom on a variety of subjects from fishing lures to falling in love to politics. As with the previous book, nostalgia and history are related with warmth and humor.
September 7, 2017
Again, I can't get enough of Frank Kuiack! He makes me want to save up and hire him to take me fishing. His view on the world is simple and honest and it makes you think twice about how we tend to complicate our lives. I need to go fishing!!!! The photos are great too, especially the one of Grey Owl feeding a baby beaver and the one of he and his late wife , Marie, which was in the first book also, makes me want to cry it is so intimate and beautiful!
November 14, 2022
Great book! Super descriptive, and an easy, interesting read about one of the last fishing guides in Algonquin Park. It gave some insight on what it was like to life in Whitney at the time and how Frank’s love for fishing always kept him close to Algonquin and his secret lakes.
April 6, 2017
A must read Canadian story.
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