ISBN: 9781626360181 - fisherman's winter (7 risultati)

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2014). (1954) 2014 new edition. 8vo paperback (139 x 203mm). Pp292. B/w illustrations by Lewis Darling, foreword by Nick Lions. Fine new unread paperback. 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. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 14.95.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. "One of the 20th century's most talented angling writers."-New York Times"Haig-Brown is a talented flyfisherman who is also gifted with an uncommon sense and sensibility."-The New YorkerOriginally published in 1954, Fisherman's Winter is fly fisherman Roderick Haig-Brown's final installment in his well-known "seasons" cycle (Fisherman's Spring, Fisherman's Summer, Fisherman's Fall).Here he writes not about his home waters, but about the waters in Chile and Argentina he visited when his Canadian home was too cold to fish.He writes about legendary waters that most will never fish-Trancura, Liucura, Fui, Enco, and San Pedro, Malleo. Chimehuin, and more. But the spirit of angling, the joy of casting a fly rod, and the level of writing is one that every fly fisherman will cherish.As Nick Lyons writes in his introduction to this edition, "Like many flyfishers after him, and a few before, he found in his travels new challenges and new rewards. He found summer worlds and some remarkable fishing far from his Canadian winter-and new wildlife, a different landscape, and rivers beyond his expectations.".…

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 290 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New. "One of the 20th century's most talented angling writers."-New York Times"Haig-Brown is a talented flyfisherman who is also gifted with an uncommon sense and sensibility."-The New YorkerOriginally published in 1954, Fisherman's Winter is fly fisherman Roderick Haig-Brown's final installment in his well-known "seasons" cycle (Fisherman's Spring, Fisherman's Summer, Fisherman's Fall).Here he writes not about his home waters, but about the waters in Chile and Argentina he visited when his Canadian home was too cold to fish.He writes about legendary waters that most will never fish-Trancura, Liucura, Fui, Enco, and San Pedro, Malleo. Chimehuin, and more. But the spirit of angling, the joy of casting a fly rod, and the level of writing is one that every fly fisherman will cherish.As Nick Lyons writes in his introduction to this edition, "Like many flyfishers after him, and a few before, he found in his travels new challenges and new rewards. He found summer worlds and some remarkable fishing far from his Canadian winter-and new wildlife, a different landscape, and rivers beyond his expectations.".…