A Dream of Jewelled Fishes: Reflections on Angling - Hardcover
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'I only had one defining principle in writing this book,' says John Aston in his Foreword, 'to describe how it felt'. In that aim he has succeeded brilliantly. This is a book that brings to life over forty years of angling; it has very little to say about 'how to do it' but a great deal to say about 'why I do it' and 'what it felt like to do it'. Written in the form of an angling autobiography, it begins with boyhood expeditions to a pond in the shadow of the West Yorkshire slag heaps, and proceeds, via specimen-hunting trips to the bleak fenland dykes and forays to the lonely lochs of north-west Scotland, to the delicate business of conjuring trout out of the streams around the author's home in North Yorkshire. There is something here for anglers of all persuasions, John Aston is no fishing snob (rather the reverse, as he makes clear when he debunks the mystique of salmon fishing) and he writes with as much passion about the barbel, carp, perch and pike which he caught in the past as he does about the trout and grayling which now preoccupy his attention. Indeed, non-anglers will find, if they can be persuaded to open the book, that here, at last, is a fisherman who is intelligent enough and writes well enough to explain convincingly why otherwise sane citizens become obsessed by fishing.
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John Aston is a local authority lawyer who lives and fishes in North Yorkshire. He contributes to Trout and Salmon, Britain's premier game-fishing magazine; this is his first book.
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- VerlagAurum Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2007
- ISBN 10 1845132807
- ISBN 13 9781845132804
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A DREAM OF JEWELLED FISHES: RELECTIONS ON ANGLING. By John Aston.
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Aurum Press. London. 2007.
(2007)
ISBN 10: 1845132807
ISBN 13: 9781845132804
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Buchbeschreibung (Hardcover, 2007). 2007 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Ppx,196. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations, dust-wrapper linocut by Robert Gillmor. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. "This is a book that brings to life over forty years of angling." Very readable too, and a book with a great deal to say which many will find interesting and others controversial. Yorkshire beck trout, loch-fishing in the far north of Scotland, and Fenland specimen hunting. Trout, salmon, pike, carp and others. "John Aston is a gifted angler and writer and A Dream Of Jewelled Fishes is a special book. Superbly written, some of the descriptions and deft turns of phrase leap off the pages like the fish of our dreams." Chris Yates. "[John] uses words as a painter uses a pallet or a pianist a keyboard." (Wild Trout Trust Magazine). Chapters include:- No guru, no method, no teacher; Orienteering; Celtic fringes; Snatching defeat; A dilettante salmon fisher writes; Esox and I; The fish-shaped fish; A confession of carp; The fisher at the gates of dawn; Reading, writing and other stuff; Counter strategy; Flying lessons; River trance; Beyong the looking glass; North; The other place; Assynt; Finessing the pool; The shadowed light; Back from the basement; Exchanging the ifs. . Artikel-Nr. 43788
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