- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; New edition edition (2 Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 022404236X
- ISBN-13: 978-0224042369
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,072,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Arthur Ransome began to fish as a boy in the Lake District, but the pursuit became almost an obsession when he lived in Russia during World War I and reported the Revolution and its aftermath for "The Daily News" and "The Manchester Guardian". When he returned to England with Trotsky's secretary as his wife, he settled in Lakeland and began his four-year weekly column, "Rod and Line", for "The Guardian", stopping only to write the 12 "Swallows and Amazons" books for children which made him famous. Although he published a few of these and other fishing essays in two books, "Rod and Line" and "Mainly about Fishing", most of his writing and broadcasting on the subject has never appeared in book form. This volume not only tells of Ransome's fishing adventures - in exotic places with men of history, or by small English streams with unknown, eccentric compatriots - but it rescues many of Ransome's fishing articles from the oblivion of the archive shelf.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like Rod & Line, a collection of articles originally written by Ransome for the Manchester Guardian during the 1920s, these gentle meanderings through the world of fishing capture that magical quality that all anglers know but find so hard to describe to those who don't follow the rod.
The quality of Ransome's writing isn't as consistently good as that in Rod & Line but the nuggets of gold are still there.
I have a handful of books that have become companions I return to down the years. This will be one of them.
Excellent.
The quality of Ransome's writing isn't as consistently good as that in Rod & Line but the nuggets of gold are still there.
I have a handful of books that have become companions I return to down the years. This will be one of them.
Excellent.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book arrived on time and in good condition. A book for the ardent fisherman, with some very useful tips and quotes. A big success with my husband.
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