A SALMON FISHING JOURNEY. By Phoebe Barnes Driver.

1997 1st edition. Pp71. B/w photographs. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and gilt salmon fly on upper board.

The author, elderly when she wrote this book, tells the story of a lifetime of salmon fishing with her husband, Charlie Barnes. Reminiscences of flyfishing for Atlantic salmon on the Grand Cascapedia and Mirimichi, on the Alta in Norway, in Iceland and Ireland, and on the Cassley, Spey, Thurso and Garry in Scotland, and on the George River in the Canadian Arctic. Charlie died in 1980, but Phoebe continued fishing and travelling for several years more". In 1992, at the age of 84, I gave up the sport completely". A fascinating account of privileged anglers whose experience spanned the highs and the lows of almost all of the twentieth century. Privately published by the author as a birthday present for her husband. No place of publication is stated.