DARK POOLS: THE DRY FLY AND THE NYMPH. By Charles Jardine.

DARK POOLS: THE DRY FLY AND THE NYMPH. By Charles Jardine.

THE HAIG GUIDE TO TROUT FISHING IN BRITAIN. Edited by David Barr.

THE HAIG GUIDE TO TROUT FISHING IN BRITAIN. Edited by David Barr.

THE FISHERMAN'S BEDSIDE BOOK. Edited by David and Gareth Pownall.

1980 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm) Pp320. Duotone photographs and illustrations. Dark blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

A good anthology with interesting illustrations. I had been put off it by the horrible jacket design, and the fact that it was published by W.H. Smith. However, it is a nice collection and well worth a read. Contents include: Seven marlin swordfish in one day by Zane Grey; Pike by Ted Hughes; It came as a big surprise by Byron Rogers; Caviare by H. and G. Papashvily; The escape of Ika by H.E. Towner Coston; The mahseer by Jocelyn Lane; The mighty mahseer; Boiled trout by Izaak Walton; Trout with shrimp by Robert Carrier; The inmates' fishing trip by Ken Kesey; Piping in the salmon by J.F. Todhunter; Fish and the shadow by Ezra Pound; Big two-hearted river by Ernest Hemingway; Ancient anglers by Charles Chenevix Trench; The "Bishop Browne" story by Derek Barker; Among the sea monsters by Hugh Copley; Bake carp with soft roe stuffing by Jane Grigson; The uncatchable trout by William Faulkner; Cleopatra's joke by William Shakespeare; Border incident by David Pownall; Bear fishing by John McPhee; Fish soup by Peter Feibleman; Herring the King; One the Danube by Negley Farson; The end of jaws by Peter Benchley; The fish by Rupert Brooke; On holiness, foolishness, and the carp by Herbert Palmer; The story of the record salmon; One dry-cow fishing as a fine art by Rudyard Kipling; Roach by Jane Grigson; The hunchback trout by Richard Brautigan; The salmon of knowledge by Lady Gregory; In the Andes by Negley Farson; Night fishing by Hugh Falkus; Lioness and fish by John Smith; Salmon in danger by Anthony Netboy; The pike by Edmund Blunden; About pike by R. Haig-Brown; The culprit by Anton Chekhov; Sea urchins by Elizabeth David; The Linn of Logie by Patrick R. Chalmers; How the whale got his throat by Rudyard Kipling; Fisherman's war by Maurice Wiggin; Estuary night by Henry Williamson; Quenelles de brochet by Rosemary Hume and Muriel Downes; Fish are such liars! by Roland Pertwee; My Moby-Dick by William Humphreys; The Royal fisherman; The weir at Galway by C. Conor O'Malley; Cannibal trout by David Pownall; The fisherman by Martin Armstrong; Bleak by Izaak Walton; An early spring day with "Bob" by William Nelson; On pike by Francis Francis; Fish by D.H. Lawrence; Crocker's Hole by R.D. Blackmore; Fish recipes by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Maurice Joyant; Man fishing by John McPhee; The fisherman by W.B. Yeats; Two friends by Guy de Maupassant; Mackerel recipes; Heaven by Rupert Brooke; The death of far by H.E. Towner Coston; The fish of the Cote Nicoise by Tobias Smollett; Rod and line by Arthur Ransome; Fishing records.
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Author Pownall (David and Gareth), Editors.
Book Code 10552
ISBN 0711200653 / 0711200653.
Book Description Various minor faults. Slightly bumped and used. Good-plus in used, spine-faded dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1980
Publisher WHS Distributors.
Place London.