THE LONGEST CAST: THE FLY-FISHING JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME. By Alexander Taylor.

2001 1st edition. Square folio (272 x 305mm). Pp224. Colour photographs by Peter and Beverley Pickford throughout, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"This magnificently illustrated book is the extraordinary story of a ... world-wide journey of a lifetime to experience the world's best - often very remote - fly-fishing destinations. [It] tells the story of a single, continuous journey across the world, stopping along the way to fish the greatest of places. [This book has been] produced solely to capture the spectacular beauty of that fishing journey". Alexander Taylor fishes in Botswana, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Bhutan, Ireland, Scotland, the Bahamas and Alaska.