The Complete Angler: A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of WaltonHarper Collins, 16 նոյ, 2010 թ. - 336 էջ James Prosek has been called "the Audubon of the fishing world" by the New York Times. A passionate fisherman and talented artist from a young age, he published two illustrated books on fish and fishing while still an undergraduate at Yale. After winning a traveling fellowship to follow in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler became his obsession. He was fascinated by Walton, a humble man who won the friendship of kings, and he was intrigued by the book's philosophies concerning the timelessness and immortality that could be achieved by fishing. Although Walton was sixty when The Compleat Angler was published and Prosek only twenty when he set off to visit England, they each had traits in common: a love of fishing and an extraordinary ability to make friends. This is the story of a young man's pilgrimage through England, fishing the waters that are now privately held. Along with wonderful stories about good times, great fishing, and fine eating, this trip becomes an exploration of Waltonian ideals: how to live with humor, wisdom, contentment, and simplicity. The original watercolors complementing the text are wonderful. Like Walton's book, The Complete Angler is not about fishing but about life. Or rather, it is about fishing—but fishing is life. |
From inside the book
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... began his oral manifesto when he picked me up at Heathrow . The quiet , congenial , and always cordial nature he'd supported in my presence while studying at Yale gave way to David Scott , icono- clast , as he was in his element now ...
... . " We drove on . He looked like a caricature of himself hunched over the wheel , and I began to resent him for spoiling my pearly images of England . " I read the introduction to your trout book , 22 The Complete Angler.
... began the process of forgetting who I was and being absorbed by this England . The chatter around the dark tables , the low - hung ceiling and heads and warped floors , pints of lager and ale of various shades of brown and amber , the ...
... began to recall lines of English poetry , the romantic poetry that I'd been studying the last three years in university , and discovered that these poems were a product of their country and that one must see the country firsthand in ...
... began to imagine how the landscape shaped its writing , or perhaps how the writing shaped the landscape . And then another line about green came to me from Marvell's poem “ The Garden ” — Annihilating all that's made To a green thought ...
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Fishing and Friendship | 49 |
The Life of Izaak Walton and an Adventure | 77 |
Holy to Fishermen | 131 |
Good Company Makes the Way Seem Short | 149 |
The Trout in Our River Are Larger | 191 |
Fresh Sheets That Smell of Lavender | 231 |
Fishing with Rheingold | 283 |
Mind the Butterfly | 299 |
Chapter 11 | 311 |
Epilogue | 320 |
Acknowledgments | 321 |
Recommended Reading | 322 |
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