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An Angler and Naturalist’s Journey to a New World
Signed by the author
Illustrated by Bob White
Hardcover, 240 pages
9 x 6 inches
Lyons Press (November 3, 2026)
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A Season in Patagonia is angler, naturalist, and outdoor conservation author Steve Ramirez’s newest collection of fly fishing, nature trekking, and exploration stories that are intended to entertain and enlighten his readers while focusing on “Nature and the Best of Human Nature.” In A Season in Patagonia, Ramirez takes us on an epic journey retracing the westward expansion of Euro-American conquistadors while exploring the legacy and lessons offered by the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Central, and South America. Traveling thousands of miles by bush planes, drift boats, pangas, four-wheel-drive vehicles, horseback, and on foot, we experience the waters, landscapes, cultures, and histories of each place and its people. Along the way we explore rainforests and cloud forests, mountains and mangroves, rushing rivers and rolling seas. And we encounter incredible fish and other wildlife that reflect the peoples and places of “The Americas”—south of the Rio Grande.
It has been said that while history may not repeat itself, it often rhymes. And while many humans may individually learn, adapt, evolve, and gain wisdom along the way, collectively we seem determined to demonstrate a cycle of insanity—repeating the same self-destructive and unwise choices and behaviors while somehow expecting different outcomes. While these choices bring about a seemingly unending series of wars, famines, and environmental degradations, this book provides us with reasons for hope and potential pathways to creating a healthier more vibrant world.
A Season in Patagonia is an adventure of discovery, wonder, gratitude, and joy. It is a call to action and a reason for hope. With the turning of each page our journey of self-exploration seeks to honestly and accurately illuminate the stark realities we face, while calling us to make wiser, kinder, healthier choices for ourselves, our families and communities, and our imperiled living planet. In a time when so much of the world feels hopeless, A Season in Patagonia is a story of creating our own hope and choosing our own future.
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Editorial Reviews
“Steve Ramirez has for many years been a favorite writer about fly fishing. His prose is superb: muscular, bone-honest, and with an eagle-eye for choice detail. He always writes about fly fishing with the joy and authority of one who has been there, loves it, and knows that it can be a sure channel to who we are and how we can live more wisely. His new book is a gem.”
Nick Lyons, author, editor, publisher, and founder of Lyons Press
“Steve Ramirez has a rare ability to slow time. His stories live in the spaces between casts, where weather, memory, and place quietly shape who we are. Reading this feels less like being told a story and more like being invited into one.”
April Vokey, Anchored Outdoors
“A Season in Patagonia is not really a book about fishing—it’s more a meditation on the power of connection and gratitude. And that happens to be something we need now more than ever.”
Monte Burke, author of Lords of the Fly, Rivers Always Reach the Sea and Men of Troy
“Marine Corps veteran and globe-trotting angler Steve Ramirez writes about fly fishing with razor-keen descriptions of both action and environment, as well as with deep feeling that incorporates a rare and courageous personal vulnerability. But in all his books, each vivid angling adventure does double duty as a framework for the author’s greater themes and concerns: his deep love of life, friendship, and family, and his fears and hopes for the future of the natural world, and for humanity in general. Crack the cover of his latest work—A Season in Patagonia—and along with an exciting panorama of international angling, you will find the beating heart, soul, and conscience of fly fishing itself.”
Paul Guernsey, author of Rolling Back the River and Beyond Catch & Release: Exploring the Future of Fly Fishing
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About the Author
Steve Ramirez is an award-winning outdoor and conservation author who lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country. Steve’s first book, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country, was featured in the film Mending the Line starring Brian Cox and Sinqua Walls. His other books Casting Onward: Fishing Adventures in Search of America’s Native Gamefish,Casting Seaward: Fishing Adventures in Search of America’s Saltwater Gamefish, and Casting Homeward: An Angler and Naturalist’s Journey to America’s Legendary Rivers have all received critical acclaim as important works of outdoor adventure and conservation literature. Steve currently writes the “Seasonable Angler” column for Fly Fisherman Magazine and serves as the Ambassador for Texas for the American Museum of Fly-Fishing. He is a Life Member of Trout Unlimited, a contributing member of the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society, and volunteers with Texas Parks and Wildlife as a Texas Master Naturalist.
