Going Fishing. Travel and Adventure in Two Hemispheres

Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Harcourt, Brace, New York, NY 1942. 10th Edition. 148 pages. Moderate general wear. Bottom front board tip worn. Previous owner gift notation. Size: 4to 9.75 - 12'' tall. 'This is just the story of some rods, and the places they take you to. It begins with surf-casting on the New Jersey coast, when I was thirteen, and carries on to such scenes as fly-fishing the headwaters of the Kuban in the upper Caucasus, and casting for Rainbow trout in the rivers of southern Chile, with a volcano erupting every ten minutes within plain view. There is not a record, or even a very big, fish in it; and some of the finest things fishing has given me I have found beside the streams of the West Country in England. I do not know the names of a tenth of the flies in the book, and thank the Lord I don't want to. I would not be at all upset if you opened my own fly-boxes and showed me a dozen strangers. I did not know the name of the finest fly I ever had, nor did the man who tied it; he was an .English captain in the Army of Occupation, at Cologne, and he said it had worked well for him in southern Germany. After a prodigious career, a trout took it away from me one night in the Balkans. What I do know are a couple of dozen old reliables, and I think I know where and how to use them. As time goes on I shall add others to this coterie, when I've found them useful. I love rods, I suppose, with the same passion that a carpenter, a violinst, or a Monaco pigeon shot love their implements. I love using them. But, if I can't, I can get a lot of fun by just taking them out of their cases and looking at them. A pair of trout rods helped to keep me alive when I was facing a riddle of poverty out in British Columbia where they provided free food; and I've used them for politics - to make a wild Irishman talk, when he wouldn't have otherwise. Although I once thought I was going to come to no good through fishing, I've even made money out of it-my little 'Duplex' rod has provided me with many articles. But chiefly I love rods because of their associations, the places they have brought me to. They have been part of my kit, when I travel, for many years. This magic wand has revealed to me some of the loveliest places on earth. That is the story of this book.' NEGLEY FARSON Hunting Fishing::Fishing 6021L