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Spanning three centuries of writing about the sport of fishing, this collection offers adventures & misadventures, breathtaking confrontations, & cool contemplations. The selections range from classic pieces by Isaak Walton & R.D. Blackmore to writings by such contemporary favorites as Arnold Gingrich, Nick Lyons, Patrick McManus & Ernest Schwiebert, & an excerpt from Norman Maclean's best-selling novel A River Runs Through It. Every type of fishing experience is explored. A timeless volume replete with humor, lore, legend, instruction, & affection. "A splendid anthology . . . a great book to take on your summer fishing vacation."
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Here are sixty pieces, averaging about six pages each, from the finest fishing writers from Izaak Walton through the present. Hemingway, T.H. White, Zane Gray, de Maupassant, and Charles Dodgson are among the more familiar to the nonfishing audience, but the selections represent a veritable who's who of angling authors. Of course one could quibble: the poetry is insubstantial, and the most space is given to Ted Williams and Roy Blount, Jr. (16 pages each). Those objections notwithstanding, this is an excellent library acquisition. It should be appreciated by literate fishers, and the works from which the selections are taken provide a good library guide for building a fishing literature collection. David J. Panciera, Westerly P.L., R.I.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 078816029X
- ISBN 13 9780788160295
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages404
- EditorTerry Brykczynski, David Reuther, John Thorn
- IllustratorBill Elliott
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