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Book The Complete Angler

Download or read book The Complete Angler written by Izaak Walton and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Far from Compleat Angler

Download or read book The Far from Compleat Angler written by Tom Fort and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Compleat Surfcaster

Download or read book The Compleat Surfcaster written by C. Boyd Pfeiffer and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Compleat Surfcaster has everything the beginning angler needs to know for more productive surfcasting - and even experienced surf fishermen will find an invaluable resource in this concise and authoritative book. Beginning with a thorough review of tackle, rigs, baits, lures, and accessories, The Compleat Surfcaster teaches the fisherman better casting methods for distance and accuracy and 'reading the surf' techniques for finding more fish. There is an invaluable chapter on driving and outfitting beach buggies; and a special table gives essential details on tackle, techniques, and strategies for catching blues, stripers, redfish, as well as other popular gamefish on all coasts. The Compleat Surfcaster will help put fish on the lines of surf fishermen everywhere. (7 X 9 1/4, 208 pages, b&w photos, diagrams)

Book The Complete Angler

Download or read book The Complete Angler written by Izaak Walton and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Compleat Angler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Izaak Walton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 9781484910948
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The Compleat Angler written by Izaak Walton and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a book to stay in print for nearly 350 years, its merits must continually entice and satisfy. The Compleat Angler qualifies on both counts. On the most obvious level, it remains as good a primer on fishing as any angler would want. But its most enduring distinction is hinted at in the subtitle--"the Contemplative Man's Recreation." Izaak Walton's sometimes convoluted 17th-century grammar can still reel in our imaginations with his graceful evocations of a life free from hurly-burly in the company of friends intent on physical and moral sustenance. "He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit," suggests the master, "but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience.... Doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be like a virtue, a reward to itself." Just like Walton's magnificent literary catch."A pastoral discourse on the joys of fishing by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653. A much enlarged edition appeared in 1655, and the last edition supervised by the author, published in 1676, included additional material by Charles Cotton. The complete book, including Cotton's additions, has been among the most often reprinted books in English literature. The book opens on the first day of May, as three sportsmen--Auceps the fowler, Venator the hunter, and Piscator the fisherman--compare their favored pastimes while traveling through the English countryside along the River Lea. The discourse is enlivened by more than 40 songs and poems, country folklore, recipes, anecdotes, moral meditations, quotes from the Bible and from classic literature, and lore about fishing and waterways. The Compleat Angler is based in part on 15th- and 16th-century fishing manuals, and the sections on fly fishing and the making of artificial flies are by Cotton."- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Book Hemingway on Fishing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernest Hemingway
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-05-22
  • ISBN : 1476770468
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Hemingway on Fishing written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family’s summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and pieces of journalism were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings about the many kinds of fishing he did—from angling for trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to fishing for marlin in the Gulf Stream. In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a café in Paris and writing about what he knew best—and when it came time to stop, he “did not want to leave the river.” The story was the unforgettable classic “Big Two-Hearted River,” and from its first words we do not want to leave the river either. He also wrote articles for The Toronto Star on fishing in Canada and Europe and, later, articles for Esquire about his growing passion for big-game fishing. Two of his last books, The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream, celebrate his vast knowledge of the ocean and his affection for its great denizens. Hemingway on Fishing is an encompassing, diverse, and fascinating assemblage. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises to such late novels as Islands in the Stream, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer’s passion, the range of his interests, and the sure use he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature. Anglers and lovers of great writing alike will welcome this important collection.

Book The River Why

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  • Author : David James Duncan
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2015-09-08
  • ISBN : 0316261211
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book The River Why written by David James Duncan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a voice as distinct and powerful as any in American letters. Gus Orviston is a young fly fisherman who leaves behind his comically schizoid family to find his own path. Taking refuge in a remote cabin, he sets out in pursuit of the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead. But what begins as a physical quarry becomes a spiritual one as his quest for self-knowledge batters him with unforeseeable experiences. Profoundly reflective about our connection to nature and to one another, The River Why is also a comedic rollercoaster. Like Gus, the reader emerges utterly changed, stripped bare by the journey Duncan so expertly navigates.

Book The Experienced Angler

Download or read book The Experienced Angler written by Robert Venables and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to the Compleat Angler

Download or read book Introduction to the Compleat Angler written by Andrew Lang and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The few events in the long life of Izaak Walton have been carefully investigated by Sir Harris Nicolas. All that can be extricated from documents by the alchemy of research has been selected, and I am unaware of any important acquisitions since Sir Harris NicolasÕs second edition of 1860. Izaak was of an old family of Staffordshire yeomen, probably descendants of George Walton of Yoxhall, who died in 1571. IzaakÕs father was Jarvis Walton, who died in February 1595-6; of IzaakÕs mother nothing is known. Izaak himself was born at Stafford, on August 9, 1593, and was baptized on September 21. He died on December 15, 1683, having lived in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., under the Commonwealth, and under Charles II. The anxious and changeful age through which he passed is in contrast with his very pacific character and tranquil pursuits. Of WaltonÕs education nothing is known, except on the evidence of his writings. He may have read Latin, but most of the books he cites had English translations. Did he learn his religion from Ôhis mother or his nurseÕ? It will be seen that the free speculation of his age left him untouched: perhaps his piety was awakened, from childhood, under the instruction of a pious mother. Had he been orphaned of both parents (as has been suggested) he might have been less amenable to authority, and a less notable example of the virtues which Anglicanism so vainly opposed to Puritanismism. His literary beginnings are obscure.

Book The Compleat Angler

Download or read book The Compleat Angler written by Izaak Walton and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Angler

Download or read book Angler written by Barton Gellman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark exposé of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American history Barton Gellman shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a keen-edged reckoning with Dick Cheney's domestic agenda in The Washington Post. In Angler, Gellman goes far beyond that series to take on the full scope of Cheney's work and its consequences, including his hidden role in the Bush administration's most fateful choices in war: shifting focus from al Qaeda to Iraq, unleashing the National Security Agency to spy at home, and promoting cruel and inhumane methods of interrogation. Packed with fresh insights and untold stories, Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how the vice president operated and what he wrought. An inspiration for the film Vice, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carrell.

Book Fly Fishing Memories of Angling Days

Download or read book Fly Fishing Memories of Angling Days written by J. R. Hartley and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. R. Hartley's best-known catch to date is the public imagination. Here are his elusive fishing recollections told in a series of sometimes vividly comic chronological cameos, ranging period and location from York school days in the early 1930s through memorable outings on stream, spate river and loch to startling conclusion half a lifetime later on a Scottish summer night. Complimented by his protege Patrick Benson's evocative illustrations and with his anglers expertise lightly threaded throughout, J. R.'s story will touch every fly fisherman's experience. But it is book too that will appeal to everyone even those who have never held a rod, for the engaging point that emerges of the ultimate reluctant hero.

Book A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle

Download or read book A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle written by Juliana Berners and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of Angling

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  • Author : John McDonald
  • Publisher : Lyons Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781558215870
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Origins of Angling written by John McDonald and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated facsimile of Juliana Berners's Treatise, with fly patterns and a translation from Old English.

Book The Angler

Download or read book The Angler written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Compleat Angler  Or the Contemplative Man  S Recreation  Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing  Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers

Download or read book The Compleat Angler Or the Contemplative Man S Recreation Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers written by Izaak Walton and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1653 edition. Excerpt: ...in any cold day. But 1 promised to tell you more ot the Flie-fishing for a Trout, (which I may have time enough to do. for you see it rainsMAy-bmter.) First for a May-flie, you may make his body with greenish coloured crewel, or willow colour-, darkning it in most places, with waxed silk, or ribd with a black hare, or some of them rib'd with silver thred; and such wmgsforthe colour as you see the flie to have at that season may at that very day on the water. Or you may make the Oak-flie with an OrangeI tawny tawny and black ground, and the brown ot a Mallards feather for the wings; and you are to know, that these two are most excellentflies, that is, the May flie and the Oak flit: And let me again tell you, that you. keep as far from the water as you can possibly, whether you fish with a flie or worm, and fish down the stream and when you fish with a flie, if it be possible, let no part of your line touch the water, but your flie only, and be stil moving your fly upon the water, or casting it into the waterj you your self, being also alwaies moving down the stream. Mr. Barker commends severall sorts of the palmer flies, not only those rib'd with silver and gold, but others that have their bodies all made of black, or some with red, and a red hackeUyou may also make the hamborn-flie-, whichis all black and not big, but very fmal, the smaller the better or the oak-flydx body of which is Orange colour colour and black crewel, with & brown wing, or a fly made with a pea.cocks feather, is excellent in a bright day: you mult be sure you want not in your JAag&zin bag, the Peacocks feather, and grounds of such wool, and crewel as will make the Grasshopper: and note, that usually, the smallest flics are best-, and note also that, the light die does...

Book The Compleat Angler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Izaac Walton
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-08-10
  • ISBN : 9781724897220
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Compleat Angler written by Izaac Walton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Compleat Angler by Izaac Walton Walton's popular classic treatise on fishing goes far beyond techniques, as it embraces a life that values serenity and appreciation for creation. Some of the natural history lore is antiquated, but keen intelligence and good humor express themselves in a readable and enjoyable manner. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.