Copies: Unlimited

Extent: 126pp

Size: 246mm x 170mm

Binding: Hardback with dust-jacket

Illustrations: Colour throughout

Published 2009

Barbel River

Mark Everard

This new book by environmentalist and aquatic biologist Mark Everard provides a slightly different approach to the study of a fish species - it’s an approach that only someone from his biological background could successfully pull off, and he has. The seasons’ turning during a full year is experienced through the eyes of a lone angler and Barbara, the matriarch of the barbel shoal, who has grown large and wary throughout her two decades of life in the flowing waters of the chalk river. This book is a celebration of the riverside and its mosaic of life, of the barbel and the way their behaviour adapts to both natural conditions and human intervention. Written by a man with decades of angling experience and a profound love of rivers, this book will be one that all barbel anglers will enjoy and learn from.