Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1981). (1942) 1981 new edition. 4to (185 x 252mm). Ppxiv,148. Colour plates of flies, b/w wood-cuts by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Ex library, numerous faults. Well-used re-bound ex library working copy in plain grey boards and original dust-wrapper. One of the world's best-loved angling books. New England surf-casting, flyfishing in Canada, Shetland and the Western Isles, Chile, France, Yugoslavia, Norway and Devon. Chapters include: The early days - surf-casting along the New Jersey sands, the Cattyrackers of the Delaware Bay, and the wild geese of the Carolinas; Russian Revolution - and Leonid Andriev's yellow perch, a voluntary exile in British Columbia, the lonely house-boat, and keeping yourself alive with rod and gun; Saga of the Pacific salmon; The spell of the Shetlands, on the northwest tip of Scotland, and gillies; Less than an hour from London, days in the Hebrides, and Murdo MacDermid; Six wandering years - drives around Ireland, and political fishing, horses over the Caucasus, fishing the headwaters of the Kuban, an English hermit in Moscow, unfriendly frontiers on the Danube; Four countries in one year - Chile, England, France and Norway, rainbow trout before the volcano of Chillan, over the Andes, an exiled dictator; Fishing the West Country of England, reward; The fish chef of the old 'Olympic', the passionate fishermen of Haute Savoie; The swift rivers of Norway; Yugoslavia, mountain-climbing, and poaching the Regent's river. . Seller Inventory # 53789

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GOING FISHING. By Negley Farson.

Farson (James Scott Negley). (1890-1960).

Published by Clive Holloway Books. London. 1981. (1981)

ISBN 10: 0907745008 ISBN 13: 9780907745006

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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1981). (1942) 1981 new edition. 4to (188 x 254mm). Ppxiv,148. Colour plates of flies, b/w wood-cuts by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Black boards, spine titled in white. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. One of the world's best-loved angling books. New England surf-casting, flyfishing in Canada, Shetland and the Western Isles, Chile, France, Yugoslavia, Norway and Devon. Chapters include: The early days - surf-casting along the New Jersey sands, the Cattyrackers of the Delaware Bay, and the wild geese of the Carolinas; Russian Revolution - and Leonid Andriev's yellow perch, a voluntary exile in British Columbia, the lonely house-boat, and keeping yourself alive with rod and gun; Saga of the Pacific salmon; The spell of the Shetlands, on the northwest tip of Scotland, and gillies; Less than an hour from London, days in the Hebrides, and Murdo MacDermid; Six wandering years - drives around Ireland, and political fishing, horses over the Caucasus, fishing the headwaters of the Kuban, an English hermit in Moscow, unfriendly frontiers on the Danube; Four countries in one year - Chile, England, France and Norway, rainbow trout before the volcano of Chillan, over the Andes, an exiled dictator; Fishing the West Country of England, reward; The fish chef of the old 'Olympic', the passionate fishermen of Haute Savoie; The swift rivers of Norway; Yugoslavia, mountain-climbing, and poaching the Regent's river. . Seller Inventory # 53620