9781471186554 - The Lightning Thread: Fishological Moments and The Pursuit of Paradise von Profumo, David (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. As Featured on BBC2'sBetween the Covers From award winning novelist and journalist David Profumo comes a dazzling work about the restorative power of nature and finding joy in simple pleasures. An angling master who wears his knowledge lightly, and a dazzling writer. Everyone remotely interested in fishing, or writing, would love this book. Prue Leith 'David Profumo has fished everywhere man and boy, and come back with his creel crammed with adventures and misadventures - a memoir for every fishermans bookshelf.' Tom Stoppard It is often said there is more to the experience of fishing than the mere catching of fish, and in this evocative, wide-ranging memoir he explores the delights and mysteries of one of mankinds most ancient pursuits. As we move from the Highland waters of his childhood and into his adult travels from the Arctic Circle to the South Seas, The Lightning Thread unpeels this idiosyncratic subject, and shows how it embraces folklore, poetry, magic, drink and disaster. By turns a lyrical celebration of the natural world and also the quirkiness of human nature itself, this is a hymn to the great happiness that pursuing his lifes passion has brought the author. In exuberant prose of warmth, wit and lightly worn erudition, this is a future classic from one of our finest writers across forty countries and sixty years, one mans quest for perfection. With wit, quiet craft, and a lifetimes store of piscatorial wisdom, Profumo draws us into his paradise. Angling, he teaches us, is the continuation of childhood by other means.Luke Jennings, author of the Killing Eve novels A fabulous confection of history, biology, philosophy and memoirspiked with wit and crafted with precision and style. Loyd Grossman 'The Lightning Threadis a delicious account of a lifetime spent among interesting fish, people and places by a compulsive angler who seems to have forgotten nothing. Unimaginable that any fisherman could put it down.' Thomas McGuane, author of The Longest Silence. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2021). 2021 1st edition. 8vo hardback (157 x 241mm). Ppx,454. Not illustrated, lime end-papers. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight tanning else very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Not signed. ".a towering work that will be ranked among the greatest literature ever written on the sport of angling." (Keith Elliott). "The Lightning Thread is a delicious account of a lifetime spent among interesting fish, people and places by a compulsive angler who seems to have forgotten nothing. Unimaginable that any fisherman could put it down." (Tom McGuane). Chapters include: Wittgenstein's cornflakes; The House of Tongue; Of small fry; The airman and the admiral; Of Walton and other writers; Borderland; Of nothing; Hinterland; Of monsters; The chalk spider; Of collecting; The lightning thread; Of gillies and guidelines; Below the salt; Of eating and drinking; The Mojito Coast; Of weather and superstition; Creatures of light; Of paradise; The trout don't rise in Green Wood cemeterary; Bibliography. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2021). 2021 1st edition. 8vo hardback (157 x 241mm). Ppx,454. Not illustrated. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped, slight marks to edges, else fine copy in dust-wrapper. Bookplate signed by the author. ".a towering work that will be ranked among the greatest literature ever written on the sport of angling." (Keith Elliott). "The Lightning Thread is a delicious account of a lifetime spent among interesting fish, people and places by a compulsive angler who seems to have forgotten nothing. Unimaginable that any fisherman could put it down." (Tom McGuane). Chapters include: Wittgenstein's cornflakes; The House of Tongue; Of small fry; The airman and the admiral; Of Walton and other writers; Borderland; Of nothing; Hinterland; Of monsters; The chalk spider; Of collecting; The lightning thread; Of gillies and guidelines; Below the salt; Of eating and drinking; The Mojito Coast; Of weather and superstition; Creatures of light; Of paradise; The trout don't rise in Green Wood cemeterary; Bibliography. .