THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON ANGLING AND GAME FISH IN THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. Compiled by Susan B. Starkman and Stanley E. Read...

THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON ANGLING AND GAME FISH IN THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. Compiled by Susan B. Starkman and Stanley E. Read...

FISHING IN WILD PLACES. By David Street.

FISHING IN WILD PLACES. By David Street.

A SUMMER ON THE TEST. By the Right Honourable John Waller Hills. Third Edition.

(1924) 1941 3rd edition. 12mo (115 x 180mm). Pp256. Illustrated with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Stone cloth, spine titled in black.

In this classic of chalk-stream fishing, Hills describes the River Test in its heyday. First published in 1924 it remained in print for more than thirty years, and with good reason. No author has surpassed this description of classic chalkstream fishing, and very few authors knew half as much about the history of their sport as J.W. Hills. Summer on the Test makes rather painful reading in some respects. Of all the rivers which have been subject to decline and deterioration, the Test must rank near the top. In the 1920s, the river ran crystal clear through the buttercup meadows and brown trout were there in profusion. Now, those days seem impossible to recover. This book enables us to make an estimate of what it was once like, and what we have lost. This new third edition, in a small "pocket" format, is newly illustrated with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. It does not contain the illustrations by Norman Wilkinson that are found in earlier editions.
£30.00
Availability: In stock
Book Code
12813
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Author Hills (Major The Right Hon. John Waller, D.C.L., M.P.). (1867-1938).
Book Code 12813
ISBN B000XDZ9WS.
Book Description Cloth a little stained and used else good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1941
Publisher Hodder and Stoughton.
Place London.