A GLIMPSE OF ARCADIA. By MacDonald Hastings.

(1960) 1974 2nd edition. Small 8vo (130mm x 190mm). Pp216. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

"In 1861 a mudlark of thirteen lived on the Greenwich waterfront with his grandfather, the last of the old netsmen who used to fish for salmon on London river." As in Hasting's other novels, there is an appendix explaining the background to the story. "An historical note on the passing of the Thames salmon." Macdonald Hastings was a journalist and novelist. He wrote a number of books on game shooting as well as the Montague Cork series of detective mysteries.