hamlyn clive holloway london 1983 (2 results)

Condition: New. (Paperback, 1983). (1942) 1983 paperback reprint. 4to paperback (180 x 246mm). Pp148. B/w illustrations by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Colour plates of maps and flies unique to this edition. Various minor faults, some use but solidly intact second-hand paperback. 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. .

Condition: New. (Paperback, 1983). (1942) 1983 paperback reprint. 4to paperback (180 x 246mm). Pp148. B/w illustrations by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Colour plates of maps and flies unique to this edition. Usual slight browning to edges, bookseller's sticker to front cover, but solidly intact second-hand paperback. 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. .