The Accidental Angler
  • Published: 18 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446444764
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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The Accidental Angler

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18 Jan 2011
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15 Sep 2007
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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.
  • Published: 18 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446444764
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
Categories:

About the author

Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Charles Rangeley-Wilson is an award-winning writer. He is a passionate conservationist, founder of the Wild Trout Trust and the Norfolk Rivers Trust and advisor to WWF on English chalk streams. He is the author of two books of travel and fishing writing, Somewhere Else and The Accidental Angler, which was also televised by the BBC, and Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River. His other work for the BBC includes the critically acclaimed film Fish! A Japanese Obsession. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children.

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Praise for The Accidental Angler

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

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

His obsession becomes ours... Compellingly written

Daily Mail

Rangeley-Wilson is widely held to be one of the best angling wirters in the country... Adventurous, entertaining and at times bizarre, these stories encompass a vast range of places, people and fish and are enormous fun. The ideal gift for any angler

Good Book Guide

Thrilling, made me writhe with envy

Sunday Telegraph

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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