| A Celebration of Salmon Rivers | 
 enlarge | Author: Nasf
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
Category: Book
Buy New: £35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 148299
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 9.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1873674279
EAN: 9781873674277
ASIN: 1873674279
Publication Date: September 26, 2007
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Condition: Publisher: 2007 1st edition. Merlin Unwin Books. Ludlow, Shropshire.Date of Publication: 1111Binding: hardcoverDescription: Oblong folio. Pp237. Colour photographs by Randolph Ashton throughout, end-paper maps. Foreword by HRH Prince Charles. Fine in dust-wrapper. Collection of essays on each of dozens of salmon rivers in Eastern Canada, Iceland, Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Scandinavia, France, Spain and Russia. Each essay is contributed by a different angler who knows that water intimately. The final chapter discusses restoration of the Penobscot, Rhine and Skjern. Contributors include some well known names such as Charles Bingham, Hoagy B. Carmichael, Michael Wigan and Max Hastings, as well as many others less well known but well worth reading. Proceeds from this book go to the North Atlantic Salmon Fund in support of their salmon conservation work.
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 One of the best angling books ever written? October 2, 2003
33 out of 34 found this review helpful
This is not a book for rigs, diagrams and techniques. This is a book, which through a wonderful mix of real-time and flashback, manages to create a kind of philosophy of fishing and reads as a wonderful manifesto of why we keep returning to the bankside. It is a timeless and evocative account of a whole day and night fishing at the point of midsummer on a secret carp lake.The Secret Carp is one of my favourite fishing books, along with the author's justly famous Casting at the Sun. Sit back during a rainy or snowy day and remind yourself why you love to go fishing. It's a wonderful read!
 too much storytelling! January 15, 2003
5 out of 18 found this review helpful
I had hoped for little more describtion of technics and stuff. He is telling some nice story of fishingtrips etc. but I had hoped for more.
This is what fishing is all about October 29, 2000
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic book it describes not only the fishing but also the atmosphere surrounding the lakes and the countryside. Once you start this book you can't put down. It is a great book for those winter nights when you can't go fishing.
Vanishing lakes, monster carp and the art of tea making... December 28, 1999
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
If you have always wanted to share a days fishing with someone who really seems to understand why angling has its fascination, read this book. Chris Yates has a way of bringing the waterside into your armchair quite unlike any other writer and makes you look forward to summer days (and nights) in a magical landscape. Each chapter begins as a commentary on a midsummer days carp fishing at a lost lake, then regresses to describe memories of encounters with vanishing lakes, monster carp and the art of tea-making, marrying past and present so well that the distinction between them ceases to exist, symbolic perhaps that, in fishing at least, time is immaterial.
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