BLOOD KNOTS. By Luke Jennings.

(2010) 2010 paperback reprint. 8vo paperback (148 x 209mm). Ppviii,232. B/w chapter heading vignettes. Embossed card covers.

This is "a memoir of angling, of great fish caught and lost, but it is also a story of friendship, honour and coming of age. ...As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. ...With library books as his guide, he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. ...As an adult, Luke Jennings has sought out lost and secretive waterways, probing waters ...at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest, as always, is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching beneath the surface, Jennings suggests, ...can we connect with our own deep histories". The author is very widely read in the literature of angling and this is reflected in the text.