IN PURSUIT OF THE LARGEST. By Terry Hearn. Reprint.

(1999) recent reprint. 8vo (153 x 217mm). Pp319. Colour photographs, colour and b/w illustrations by Glyn Gomershall and Gareth Fareham. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Terry Hearn is the captor of seven different 40lb+ carp from six different British waters. He and his friends discuss places, rigs and methods. Widely regarded as one of the best carp books around*. Chapters include: Yateley - the first taste; Forty Yateley carp; First Yateley 'thirty'; Bazil - a new quest; The Car Park Lake; Summer in the city; Heather the leather; The Pads Lake; Time to wander; Wraysbury - a new record; Dinton; Rig talk; The Mere - the carp that time forgot; Kent - The Brook; Life goes on. Also includes the following guest chapters: Dintons first forty by John Spires; Dinton daze by Bernie Loftus; Lucky Heather by Nigel Sharp; The Royal forty by Lewis Read; Wraysbury myths and legends by Wayne Dunn; The impossible dream by Dave Mallin; 40/40 vision by Steve Mogford; 'Herts' of gold by Paul Forward; Thames record carp by John Gard.