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Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is the daughter of former professional football player Johnny Morris and Jeannie Morris, a sports reporter and writer
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A Different Angle: Fly Fishing Stories by Women
("Many of these writers came to fly fishing in order to de...)
"Many of these writers came to fly fishing in order to defy, or to wow, or to woo a man. But once the River speaks, the man becomes a superfluous distraction and a woman finds herself standing alone, in living water, defying and wowing and wooing the self. This is the moment the fly fisher is born. This beautiful birth is the heartbeat of these stories".--David James Duncan, author of"The River Why" and "The Brothers K". Contributors include Pulitzer Prize winner E. Annie Proulx, author Pam Houston, fly casting champion Joan Salvato Wulff, Lorian Hemingway, LeAnne Schreiber and more.
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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World by Holly Morris (2006-10-31)
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Reading the Water: Stories and Essays of Flyfishing and Life
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Book by Burton, Mallory, Morris, Holly
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Uncommon Waters: Women Write about Fishing (Adventura Books)
(In this enthralling anthology, 34 contributors, including...)
In this enthralling anthology, 34 contributors, including Margaret Atwood and Ted Gallagher, provide the literary answer to why women have gone, and will always go, fishing. Includes a list of fishing organizations and resources for fisherwomen.18 illustrations.
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Reading the Water: Stories and Essays of Flyfishing and Life by Mallory Burton (1995-07-04)
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Uncommon Waters: Women Write about Fishing (Adventura Books) by Holly Morris (1998-03-11)
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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
(After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had fi...)
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists, activists, and politicos–women of action who are changing the rules and sometimes the world around them. In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art. Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia. Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures. From the Hardcover edition.
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Holly Morris
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Her articles have been published in The New York Times Book Review, More, O, Slate, The Daily Telegraph, The Week and other national publications. Johnny Morris was a Chicago Bears wide receiver who became a long-time sportscaster for WBBM-TV-television in Chicago and a football color commentator with Columbia Broadcasting System Sports. Jeannie Morris is the author of the best-selling book Brian Piccolo: A Short Season, the story of an American National Football League player who died of cancer at the age of 26.
She was an editorial director of the publishing company Seal Press (which was acquired by Avalon in 2003 and then Perseus in 2007).
She is the executive producer, writer/director and host of the eight-part Public Broadcasting Service documentary series, as well as author of: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine (Random House, 2005, 2006), which was named a New York Times Editors" Choice. As a producer and correspondent, Morris has made programs in Bangladesh, Borneo, Brazil, Cuba, Gabon, Guyana, India, Iran, Malawi, Niger, Syria, Ukraine, and Zambia, among other countries.
She is one of the main hosts of, a Pilot Productions adventure/eco/history series, as well as one of several hosts of the television travel show (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet). She has been a correspondent for National Geographic Today and the environmental series.
In 2010, she founded PowderKeg Writers" Residency in Brooklyn, New York, New New York
Also in 2010, her article "A Country of Women" was published. lieutenant chronicles a community of "self settlers" who live inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. She directed and produced (with Anne Bogart) the 2015 documentary "", about the women of the Exclusion Zone, which premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2015.
In June 2013 she delivered a TED talk on the subject at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She is featured in the 2013 documentary release.
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Uncommon Waters: Women Write about Fishing (Adventura Books)
(In this enthralling anthology, 34 contributors, including...)
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A Different Angle: Fly Fishing Stories by Women
("Many of these writers came to fly fishing in order to de...)
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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
(After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had fi...)
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Reading the Water: Stories and Essays of Flyfishing and Life
(Book by Burton, Mallory, Morris, Holly)
- Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World by Holly Morris (2006-10-31)
- Reading the Water: Stories and Essays of Flyfishing and Life by Mallory Burton (1995-07-04)
- Uncommon Waters: Women Write about Fishing (Adventura Books) by Holly Morris (1998-03-11)
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Uncommon Waters: Women Write about Fishing (Adventura Books)
Politics
As an editorial director, she acquired and edited fiction and non-fiction on diverse topics including third wave feminism, health, international politics, and traveling
