All the exotic sites, including Lake Manasarovar in Tibet, are real and described as well as my memory permits. All the conversations and social interactions that let me peek under the seductive skirt of the fly fishing industry occurred but the names have been tweaked to protect sensitivities. I hope that it is in the same irreverent but poignant style as books by Carl Hiaasen, James Prosek and Monte Burke. Comments on politics, race and religion reflect the opinions of people I met. They resonate now and are not judge mental. As a writer I can create Gints, the book's traveler. It's a free press. The reader decides their own limits of tolerance. That's one value that separates an open society from a controlled state. Rocky Rhodes