BY RIVER, STREAM AND LOCH: THIRTY YEARS WITH A TROUT ROD. By A.R.B. Haldane.

1973 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppviii,163. B/w wood-cuts by Helen Munro Turner. Violet boards, spine titled in gilt.

Haldane's third fishing book, concluding his record of 65 years angling. Memories of trout fishing in the hills of Wales and Scotland, the West Country and Ireland, Germany and South Africa. Chapters include: Sea trout fishing in Connemara; With a trout rod at Monymusk; Spring time on the upper Don; On river and loch in Wester Ross; Winterberg in Westphalia; A trout stream in the Black Forest; On a Welsh trout stream; Dry fly in the hills; The sea pool of the River Awe; A July day in Argyll; A Somerset trout stream; Trout fishing in South Africa; Two days on the Test; Autumn in the Ochils; Dry fly above the Vale of Alford; In praise of my trout rod.