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The Accidental Angler

Charles Rangeley-Wilson

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English
Yellow Jersey Press
15 September 2007
The breakthrough book by one of the country's finest fishing and travel writers.

Fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will introduce you to crabby weather and crabbier locals, moon-phases, rip-tides, floods, droughts, remarkable tales, and of course fantastic slippery beasts.

In The Accidental Angler you'll battle titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash. You'll chase inscrutable grayling through back gardens in Provence, or phantom sea trout in downtown Southampton. And you'll dance in Brazilian carvinals and find secret rivers hidden beneath the streets.

Join Charles Rangeley-Wilson - angler, conservationist, television presenter and traveller - for the trip of a lifetime, on a journey that will make the familiar new, and the strange familiar.
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Imprint:   Yellow Jersey Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   210g
ISBN:   9780224080125
ISBN 10:   0224080121
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Charles Rangeley-Wilson is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. As well as having presented BBC TV's The Accidental Angler, he is The Field's fishing correspondent and contributes regularly to Gray's Sporting Journal, America's leading literary outdoor magazine. He was a founder of the Wild Trout Trust, and is the author of one previous book, Somewhere Else. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children.

Reviews for The Accidental Angler

His obsession becomes ours... Compellingly written * Daily Mail * Thrilling, made me writhe with envy * Sunday Telegraph * He has a good eye for river landscapes and for the otherworldly movements of fish... There's a charm in this woozy prose, which has a knack for snagging interesting turns of phrase -- James Purdon * Observer * Charles Rangeley-Wilson ... is fishing's high-priest. To the common passion for the pastime, he adds an exceptional ability to write well...And he has an acerbic eye -- Ross Leckie * The Times * Whether battling titantic monsters on a tropical atoll or chasing phantom sea-trout in Southampton, Rangeley-Wilson attains cultural and sociological insights into all manner of people and places. * The Field *


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