REVENGE OF THE FISHGOD: ANGLING ADVENTURES AROUND THE WORLD. By Carl von Essen.

1996 1st edition. 8vo (156 x 234mm). Ppxii,173. B/w illustrations by Neila von Essen, route maps. Green cloth, gilt titles to spine.

"Chronicles a diverse life that included fishing in Sri Lanka, Turkey, Spain, and widely elsewhere, but nowhere with more charm and immediacy than his nearby New England rivers." Dr von Essen, recounts his experiences fishing all over the world, a perk of working as a medic for the WHO. Mostly freshwater. His experience of being poisoned by the spines of a weever fish, with detailed medical descriptions of the symptoms, will make me doubly careful next time I fillet one. Chapters include: A fish that is not a fish (California); No bears in Trinity (Connecticut); George and the Hammonasset (Connecticut); The Ladies' Stretch (Connecticut); Trout of Trebizond (Turkey), Poaching in Ooty (Ootacamund, India), Kazakh caper (Kazakhstan), Spanish fly (Spain); Swiss watchers (Switzerland); The revenge of the fishgod (Sweden); A patch of wild strawberries (New Mexico); Farr Inn on Horton Plains (Sri Lanka); Naked in Nyanga (Zimbabwe); Baptism in the Tongariro (New Zealand); In praise of shad (Massachusetts); The elusive mahseer (India); Nordic pilgrimage (Sweden, finland); Kings and a grizzly on the Aniak (Alaska); Pisco sours and Patagonian trout (Chile); Epilogue, the ancient angler.