David O'Hara is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD. He is a graduate of Middlebury College, St John's College, and Penn State. At Augustana College, he teaches courses in the history of ideas, environment and nature, American philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He teaches outdoors whenever he can, including an annual course in rainforest and reef ecology in Guatemala and Belize; field trips to the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota; and frequent lectures under the large tree at the center of Augustana's campus quad. Matthew Dickerson is a professor at Middlebury College (Vermont) where he has taught essay-writing courses on nature and ecology and on the literature of fishing. His other books include The Rood and the Torc (an historical novel), A Hobbit Journey (on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien), and two other narratives about fly fishing, trout, and ecology: A Tale of Three Rivers and Trout in the Desert. Previous coauthored books by Dickerson and O'Hara include Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis and From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook of Myth and Fantasy.For essays, photographs, and additional materials from the authors of this book, please visit www.troutdownstream.net