Going Fishing
Travel and Adventure with a Fishing Rod
Published on 1. September 2015
192 pages
978-1-910723-05-0 (ISBN)
Description
'This is just the story of some rods, and the places they take you to. It begins with surf-casting on the New Jersey coast when I was 13, and carries on to such scenes as flyfishing the headwaters of the Kuban in the upper Caucasus, and casting for rainbow trout in the rivers of southern Chile, with a volcano erupting every ten minutes within plain view.
'There is not a record, or even a very big fish in it; and some of the finest things fishing has given me I have found beside the steams of the West Country in England. Chiefly, I love my rods because of their associations, the places they have brought me to. They have been part of my kit when I travel, for many years.
'This magic wand has revealed to me some of the loveliest places on earth. That is the story of this book.'
- Negley Farson
'There is not a record, or even a very big fish in it; and some of the finest things fishing has given me I have found beside the steams of the West Country in England. Chiefly, I love my rods because of their associations, the places they have brought me to. They have been part of my kit when I travel, for many years.
'This magic wand has revealed to me some of the loveliest places on earth. That is the story of this book.'
- Negley Farson
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
27 Illustrations, black and white
File size
14,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-910723-05-0 (9781910723050)
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09/2015
John Blake Publishing Ltd
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Merlin Unwin Books
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Persons
Born in New Jersey in 1890, Negley Farson was raised by his eccentric grandfather, General Negley, a veteran of the American civil war. Fishing and sailing on the Chesapeke Bay were his constant escape as a boy, combined with a born wunderlust - which took him, eventually, all over the world, his fishing rod a vital part of his luggage.
He began his married life on a houseboat in British Columbia in 1920 and he died in 1960 at his home in North Devon - 'the perfect place for journey's end' - when he was seventy.
He began his married life on a houseboat in British Columbia in 1920 and he died in 1960 at his home in North Devon - 'the perfect place for journey's end' - when he was seventy.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- 1 The early days
- surf-casting along the New Jersey sands
- the cattyrackers of the Delaware Bay
- and the wild geese of the Carolinas
- 2 Russian revolution - and Leonid Andriev's yellow perch
- a voluntary exile in British Columbia
- the lonely houseboat
- and keeping yourself alive with rod and gun
- 3 Saga of the Pacific salmon
- 4 The spell of the Shetlands
- on the north-west tip of Scotland
- and gillies
- 5 Less than an hour from London
- days in the Hebrides
- and Murdo MacDermid
- 6 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
- 7 Four countries in one year: Chile, England, France and Norway
- rainbow trout before the volcano of Chillan
- over the Andes
- and exiled dictator
- 8 Fishing the West Country of England
- reward
- 9 The fish chef of the old 'Olympic'
- the passionate fishermen of the Haute Savoie
- 10 The swift rivers of Norway
- 11 Yugoslavia
- mountain climbing
- and poaching the Regent's River
- 12 Kenya - the best trout fishing in Africa
- advice on walking near elephants
- the laughter of Kikuyu girls
- Copyright
