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The Silver Tourist - An Anthology of Salmon Stories
Andrew Herd
The best salmon stories from authors that include 'BB', Negley Farson, Lee Wulff, Hugh Falkus, George Kelson, John Buchan, Courtney Williams, Francis Francis, Haig-Brown, Ted Hughes, Georgina Ballantyne and others.
'The extraordinary nature of the salmon's lifestyle is explanation enough for why the salmon has inspired more words than any other fish, except perhaps the trout. This anthology presents no less than five centuries of salmon stories, starting with its introduction as a sporting fish in The Treatyse of Fishing with an Angle and finishing with Hugh Falkus's sunset postcript. . . . [stories range] from Scrope's slaughterous tale of burning the water, to the refinement of Ashley-Cooper's days at Careysville, when it was said there was never a moment that a fish could not be seen jumping the weir. By the time the last page of this anthology has been turned, my hope is that even a non-fisherman will understand why the salmon exerts such a pull on the angling imagination . . .' - Andrew Herd (from the Introduction)
'The extraordinary nature of the salmon's lifestyle is explanation enough for why the salmon has inspired more words than any other fish, except perhaps the trout. This anthology presents no less than five centuries of salmon stories, starting with its introduction as a sporting fish in The Treatyse of Fishing with an Angle and finishing with Hugh Falkus's sunset postcript. . . . [stories range] from Scrope's slaughterous tale of burning the water, to the refinement of Ashley-Cooper's days at Careysville, when it was said there was never a moment that a fish could not be seen jumping the weir. By the time the last page of this anthology has been turned, my hope is that even a non-fisherman will understand why the salmon exerts such a pull on the angling imagination . . .' - Andrew Herd (from the Introduction)
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