WHERE THE BRIGHT WATERS MEET. By Harry Plunket Greene. Fifth Edition.

(1924) 1969 new edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppxvi,253. B/w photograph plates, line drawing. Blue boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

"[The author] was a writer of real quality, and in "Where the bright waters meet" he produced an outstanding angling autobiography, which is quite rightly regarded as a classic of the chalk-streams. ...In this book, as well as paying homage to the Bourne, he wrote chapters on Blagdon, the Test and the Kennet, and while he lays down no definite instructions, he brings us to his side while he is fishing, and leaves us to find out his true quality from watching him at work." (Howard Marshall in his introduction to the 1969 edition). Chapters include: Introductory foreword; Introduction; How I discovered the Bourne; My first sart (1902); Wild life in the Bourne Valley (1908); The finest trout in the river; 'Iron-Blue'; The beats on the Bourne and the Test; The tragedy of the Bourne (1905); Bransbury Common and Midleton (1906 and 1907); Longparish, Bransbury, and Chilbolton (1908); Some interesting experiences in 1910; Digressions (1911); Life at Hurstbourne Priors; Some spectacular triumphs and humiliations; Blagdon; Blagdon (continued); The fisherman's curses; Dogs and horses; 'Impossible' trout; The Kennet; Fishing, singing and poaching; The future of the Bourne.