ISBN: 9780951790007 - somewhere down the crazy river: journeys in search of giant (4 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1992). 1992 1st edition. 4to (192 x 252mm). Pp320. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight lean to spine. A good copy in well used dust-wrapper. An enthralling tale of modern travel, adventure and fishing. Split into two halves, the first half of the book deals with the authors' rediscovery of the golden mahseer of both the Himalayan and southern Indian rivers. The second half recounts their trip in search of the goliath tigerfish of the Congo, coping with the hazards of the jungle, malaria and a variety of other life threatening situations along the way. Certainly a modern angling classic. Chapters include: Beginnings; Total immersion. Book One, Mahseer: Discovery; Initiation; A lost domain; Ramganga days; Shadow across the sun; A season in the south; Pilgrims; The watershed. Book Two, Goliath: The horror; Step in the dark; A region in the mind; With the current; Strange fever; Reluctant return; Into the lair; Afterword. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1992). 1992 1st edition. 4to (192 x 252mm). Pp320. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning of edges but a very good copy in slightly used dust-wrapper. An enthralling tale of modern travel, adventure and fishing. Split into two halves, the first half of the book deals with the authors' rediscovery of the golden mahseer of both the Himalayan and southern Indian rivers. The second half recounts their trip in search of the goliath tigerfish of the Congo, coping with the hazards of the jungle, malaria and a variety of other life threatening situations along the way. Certainly a modern angling classic. Chapters include: Beginnings; Total immersion. Book One, Mahseer: Discovery; Initiation; A lost domain; Ramganga days; Shadow across the sun; A season in the south; Pilgrims; The watershed. Book Two, Goliath: The horror; Step in the dark; A region in the mind; With the current; Strange fever; Reluctant return; Into the lair; Afterword. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1992). 1992 1st edition. 4to (192 x 252mm). Pp320. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Corners slightly bumped o/w a very good copy in slightly used dust-wrapper. An enthralling tale of modern travel, adventure and fishing. Split into two halves, the first half of the book deals with the authors' rediscovery of the golden mahseer of both the Himalayan and southern Indian rivers. The second half recounts their trip in search of the goliath tigerfish of the Congo, coping with the hazards of the jungle, malaria and a variety of other life threatening situations along the way. Certainly a modern angling classic. Chapters include: Beginnings; Total immersion. Book One, Mahseer: Discovery; Initiation; A lost domain; Ramganga days; Shadow across the sun; A season in the south; Pilgrims; The watershed. Book Two, Goliath: The horror; Step in the dark; A region in the mind; With the current; Strange fever; Reluctant return; Into the lair; Afterword. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1992). 1992 1st edition. 4to (192 x 252mm). Pp320. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Near fine in dust-wrapper. Laid in is a short hand-written letter from Paul Boote to "Michael". An enthralling tale of modern travel, adventure and fishing. Split into two halves, the first half of the book deals with the authors' rediscovery of the golden mahseer of both the Himalayan and southern Indian rivers. The second half recounts their trip in search of the goliath tigerfish of the Congo, coping with the hazards of the jungle, malaria and a variety of other life threatening situations along the way. Certainly a modern angling classic. Chapters include: Beginnings; Total immersion. Book One, Mahseer: Discovery; Initiation; A lost domain; Ramganga days; Shadow across the sun; A season in the south; Pilgrims; The watershed. Book Two, Goliath: The horror; Step in the dark; A region in the mind; With the current; Strange fever; Reluctant return; Into the lair; Afterword. .…