Book description
Fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other
forms of travel can match. Whether in the world's most outlandish and
awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will
introduce you to crabby weather and crabbier locals, moon-phases,
rip-tides, floods, droughts, remarkable tales, and of course fantastic
slippery beasts.
In The Accidental Angler you'll battle titanic monsters on a
tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy
Wash. You'll chase inscrutable grayling through back gardens in
Provence, or phantom sea trout in downtown Southampton. And you'll
dance in Brazilian carvinals and find secret rivers hidden beneath the streets.
Join Charles Rangeley-Wilson - angler, conservationist, television
presenter and traveller - for the trip of a lifetime, on a journey
that will make the familiar new, and the strange familiar.
Charles Rangeley-Wilson is an award-winning journalist and
broadcaster. As well as having presented BBC TV's
The Accidental Angler
, he is
The Field
's fishing correspondent and contributes regularly to
Gray's Sporting Journal
, America's leading literary outdoor magazine. He was a founder of the
Wild Trout Trust, and is the author of one previous book,
Somewhere Else
. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children.
