Isbn: 9780517518960 - fisherman's summer (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Crown Pub April 1975 Binding: Hardcover.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1975). (1959) 1975 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 207mm). Pp253. B/w illustrations by Louis Darling. Fawn cloth, red metalic titles to spine. From the library of angling collector, Colin Pitt, with two of his angling book-plates to the end-paper and paste-down. Slight foxing to the edges but a good copy in slightly used and spine-faded dust-wrapper. This book "rounds out Roderick Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' cycle [Fisherman's Summer / Fall / Winter / Spring], focusing here on many of the rivers of Haig-Brown's native British Columbia - the Campbell, the Columbia, the Nimpkish - where salmon and cutthroat provide superb summer sport. He tells the stories of the Indians and pioneers who once fished these same rivers, and looks into the future with confidence that they will not be destroyed." Chapters include: The scene: Summer defined; Fisherman's summer. How it once was: The explorers; The Indian and me. The home river: Defined; The beginnings of change; The search; The day everything happened; Speed and stamina; The dry fly and very fast water; The canyon again. Poisson bleu, the flower of fishes: Standard bearer, Arctic; Standard bearer, by the roadside; Standard bearer, Subarctic. Signs of the times: The lawbreaker; Fish derbies; Less time between bites; The great destroyers; Access. Salt water: The cruise; The beaches; Stream survival. Return to the river: Nimpkish River; Tsable River; The Beaverkill; Blackhole. Conclusion: What is good? This is the last book in Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' series - Fisherman's Fall, Fisherman's Winter, Fisherman's Spring, and, Fisherman's Summer. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). (1959) 1975 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 207mm). Pp253. B/w illustrations by Louis Darling. Fawn cloth, red metalic titles to spine. Various minor faults (slight lean and unobtrusive bumpe to spine, owner's name to fep, ink date to title-page verso) else clean. Good copy in slightly tanned and frayed dust-wrapper. This book "rounds out Roderick Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' cycle [Fisherman's Summer / Fall / Winter / Spring], focusing here on many of the rivers of Haig-Brown's native British Columbia - the Campbell, the Columbia, the Nimpkish - where salmon and cutthroat provide superb summer sport. He tells the stories of the Indians and pioneers who once fished these same rivers, and looks into the future with confidence that they will not be destroyed." Chapters include: The scene: Summer defined; Fisherman's summer. How it once was: The explorers; The Indian and me. The home river: Defined; The beginnings of change; The search; The day everything happened; Speed and stamina; The dry fly and very fast water; The canyon again. Poisson bleu, the flower of fishes: Standard bearer, Arctic; Standard bearer, by the roadside; Standard bearer, Subarctic. Signs of the times: The lawbreaker; Fish derbies; Less time between bites; The great destroyers; Access. Salt water: The cruise; The beaches; Stream survival. Return to the river: Nimpkish River; Tsable River; The Beaverkill; Blackhole. Conclusion: What is good? This is the last book in Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' series - Fisherman's Fall, Fisherman's Winter, Fisherman's Spring, and, Fisherman's Summer. . …