Synopsis
Originally published in 1954, Fisherman’s Winter is Roderick Haig-Brown’s final installment in his well-known “seasons” cycle. With a unique blend of experience and observation, Haig-Brown brings readers through the exotic.
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About the Author
Roderick L. Haig-BrownK (1908 1976) was a conservationist and well-known Canadian writer. He was born in England and found his way to British Columbia as a youth. He spent much of his life fishing rivers around the world and writing about his experiences, and in 1953 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of British Columbia. He is also the author of Fisherman’s Spring, Fisherman’s Summer, and Fisherman’s Fall. He is now deceased.
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““Haig-Brown is a talented flyfisherman who is also gifted with an uncommon sense and sensibility.”” (The New Yorker)
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Fisherman's Winter
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Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Darling, Louis (illustrator). Later printing. Octavo, 288 pages. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Foxing on edges. Jacket encased in a clear protective cover. Seller Inventory # 14931
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Dust jacket in good condition with moderate wear, small tears, chips and rubbing present. Pictures available upon request. Seller Inventory # 056323
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The author, Roderick Haig-Brown, has undertaken a real challenge with his fishing adventure to South America. He traveled in the wintertime in North America to the south and sought five and six pound trout in the cold streams in the Andes mountains. New worlds in the outdoors are opened by him. Included are some illustrations and appendices. This HARDCOVER copy is clean and solid. Seller Inventory # 022135
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Clean tight copy with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 046071
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VG/VG. Very light wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships in a box packed with care. Seller Inventory # 081623-13
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Hardcover. Reprinted. Octavo, 288 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine light blue with black and white lettering. Exterior has slight wear including mild sunning, light soiling and minor edge wear. Slight age toning to the flaps. Boards have very slight wear including minor edge wear and faint sunning to the spine. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Reprinted. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T, ND-T. 1398385. FP New Rockville Stock. Seller Inventory # 1398385
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FISHERMAN'S WINTER. By Roderick Haig-Brown. 1975 Canadian Edition.
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). (1954) 1975 2nd edition - Canadian issue. 8vo (140 x 207mm). Pp288. B/w illustrations by Louis Darling. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth faded but good-plus in price-clipped label-marked dust-wrapper. This Canadian edition was issued in the 1975 Crown Publisher's dust-wrapper. Not about winter fishing, but the story of the year that Haig-Brown escaped the cold of the Pacific North-West to find a second summer in the Southern Hemisphere, fishing for the great trout of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. Chapters include: Flight; The capital; The Lake of Big Rainbows; The Laja River - anglers on horseback; Some incidental things; The start of the south; The Tolten; The white water of Liucura and Trancura; Journey to Los Lagos; Big River; Lago Maihue and the Calcurrupe; Abortive expedition; Big fish story; A restful place; The Beach of the Deer; Journey to Argentina; The Manso Chain; Traful, Meliquina and the Sebagos; Rivers of the Pampas; Journey by Lanin; The Last river. Appendices include: Tackle and other details; the trou and salmon of South America; Some birds of Southern Chile and Argentina; Some trees and plants of Southern Chile. This is the second book in Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' series - Fisherman's Fall, Fisherman's Winter, Fisherman's Spring, and, Fisherman's Summer. . Seller Inventory # 60341
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FISHERMAN'S WINTER. By Roderick Haig-Brown.
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). (1954) 1975 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 207mm). Pp288. B/w illustrations by Louis Darling. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Gift inscription to front end-papers else very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Not about winter fishing, but the story of the year that Haig-Brown escaped the cold of the Pacific North-West to find a second summer in the Southern Hemisphere, fishing for the great trout of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. Chapters include: Flight; The capital; The Lake of Big Rainbows; The Laja River - anglers on horseback; Some incidental things; The start of the south; The Tolten; The white water of Liucura and Trancura; Journey to Los Lagos; Big River; Lago Maihue and the Calcurrupe; Abortive expedition; Big fish story; A restful place; The Beach of the Deer; Journey to Argentina; The Manso Chain; Traful, Meliquina and the Sebagos; Rivers of the Pampas; Journey by Lanin; The Last river. Appendices include: Tackle and other details; the trou and salmon of South America; Some birds of Southern Chile and Argentina; Some trees and plants of Southern Chile. This is the second book in Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' series - Fisherman's Fall, Fisherman's Winter, Fisherman's Spring, and, Fisherman's Summer. . Seller Inventory # 7707
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint - Second Edition. Seller Inventory # FORT866382
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FISHERMAN'S WINTER. By Roderick Haig-Brown.
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ISBN 10: 0517523701
ISBN 13: 9780517523704
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1975). (1954) 1975 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 207mm). Pp288. B/w illustrations by Louis Darling. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. From the library of angling collector, Colin Pitt, two of his angling book-plates to the end-papers. Slightly tanned and used but a good-plus copy slightly used and spine-faded dust-wrapper. Not about winter fishing, but the story of the year that Haig-Brown escaped the cold of the Pacific North-West to find a second summer in the Southern Hemisphere, fishing for the great trout of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. Chapters include: Flight; The capital; The Lake of Big Rainbows; The Laja River - anglers on horseback; Some incidental things; The start of the south; The Tolten; The white water of Liucura and Trancura; Journey to Los Lagos; Big River; Lago Maihue and the Calcurrupe; Abortive expedition; Big fish story; A restful place; The Beach of the Deer; Journey to Argentina; The Manso Chain; Traful, Meliquina and the Sebagos; Rivers of the Pampas; Journey by Lanin; The Last river. Appendices include: Tackle and other details; the trou and salmon of South America; Some birds of Southern Chile and Argentina; Some trees and plants of Southern Chile. This is the second book in Haig-Brown's 'Seasons' series - Fisherman's Fall, Fisherman's Winter, Fisherman's Spring, and, Fisherman's Summer. . Seller Inventory # 63194
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