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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... stone library floor , I could hear the stream pushing from its spring and the trout sip- ping flies ; could see swallows dipping to take those flies , their shadows cast on the stream bottom by the sun behind them . I'd always had a ...
... stone and stairs to my room and sat in a stone chair in a stone world and fell asleep there while the com- mittee decided on my life . The college Master woke me several hours later , speaking through the telephone and the rain from a ...
... stones , and good in everything . " I know of only one scripted version of The Compleat Angler that was performed as a play , and it exists as a small pamphlet in the stacks of the Yale Library ( The Compleat Angler , a Play , by Arthur ...
... stone near a bed of violets . When I arrived at Bloom's home in New Haven , I found him in his chair , writing on his pad of yellow lined paper in a dimly lit corner of his living room , which was stacked to the ceiling with books . He ...
... stone cottages and stone towns with little windows and window boxes gushing flowers , and when we came around a corner , as we wound up a hill several miles outside of Buxton , 29 A Connecticut Yankee in England.
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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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Deep Trout: Angling in Popular Culture William Washabaugh,Catherine Washabaugh Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2000 |