Collins toronto 1975 (2 risultati)

Paper bound, first English edition, illustrated throughout, 192pp. Front cover moderately creased else a tight, unmarked, very good copy. Scarce. 250 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). (1954) 1975 2nd edition - Canadian issue. 8vo (140 x 207mm). Pp288. B/w illustrations by Louis Darling. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth faded but good-plus in price-clipped label-marked dust-wrapper. This Canadian edition was issued in the 1975 Crown Publisher's dust-wrapper. Not about winter fishing, but the story of the year that Haig-Brown escaped the cold of the Pacific North-West to find a second summer in the Southern Hemisphere, fishing for the great trout of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. Chapters include: Flight; The capital; The Lake of Big Rainbows; The Laja River - anglers on horseback; Some incidental things; The start of the south; The Tolten; The white water of Liucura and Trancura; Journey to Los Lagos; Big River; Lago Maihue and the Calcurrupe; Abortive expedition; Big fish story; A restful place; The Beach of the Deer; Journey to Argentina; The Manso Chain; Traful, Meliquina and the Sebagos; Rivers of the Pampas; Journey by Lanin; The Last river. Appendices include: Tackle and other details; the trou and salmon of South America; Some birds of Southern Chile and Argentina; Some trees and plants of Southern Chile. This is the second book in Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' series - Fisherman's Fall, Fisherman's Winter, Fisherman's Spring, and, Fisherman's Summer. .…