Copies: Cased not limited, 50 leather

Extent: 240pp

Size: 234 x 156mm

Binding: Cased with dust-jacket, and leather (in slipcase)

Illustrations: Monochrome photographs and pull-out colour maps

Chalkstream

Charles Rangeley-Wilson

In Praise of the Ultimate River

For centuries chalkstreams have inspired infatuation. All the qualities of a spring-fed river – constant, equable, cool, fertile – are magnified in a chalkstream. A sickle-shape of chalk downland that runs from Normandy to Yorkshire, gives birth to over a hundred of the most perfect rivers for large and fussy trout. Chalkstream is an anthology of writing that celebrates these rivers, their geology, their history, their trout and their fly fishing. From Ruskin and Coleridge to Plunket Greene; from the stately Test, to the dapperling Piddle; streams that flow through unspoilt countryside, streams that flow through pipes, watermeadows to snuff mills: chalkstreams, the ultimate trout rivers, are unique to England and northern France, and this book praises them all.

Each book comes with pull-out colour maps of chalkstream catchments.