The Call Of The Surf - Softcover

Van Campen Heilner; Frank Stick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1424317002 ISBN 13: 9781424317004

Publisher: Surfcasting Rhode Island, 2006

Synopsis

Surfcasting Rhode Island proudly announces the re-issue of the classic surfcasting story, The Call Of The Surf. It's been 86 years between the first and second printings - but we think you'll find it was well worth the wait. The Call Of The Surf is not a "how-to," not a "where-to," nor is it a "mood" book. The Call Of The Surf is all of those things and something else. It can't be distilled into the simplistic characterizations that the publishers of today use to categorize surfcasting books. Indeed, it probably would have been rejected by today's outdoor publishing houses as too artistic - and we would all have been the poorer for it. The Call Of The Surf was the first book of the surf genre and it affords us a unique glimpse into what the sport was like at it's inception. We see surcasting as a child - in it's purest state, from a young man's perspective, when the world and the sport were still young.

About this title

About the Author

Traveler, hunter, angler, yachtsman, naturalist, explorer, writer, and filmmaker. Van Campen Heilner was all of these, and a great contributor to the collective knowledge of game fish around the world. But most notably, Heilner was a devoted surf caster and a towering figure in the development of the sport. Born in Philadelphia, the only child and heir to a mining fortune, Heilner is said to have drifted from school to school, trying to assign a goal to a life that was both prepaid and guaranteed. During summers on the Jersey shore, Heilner found his direction; he fell in love with surf fishing. Early on, Heilner became something of a prodigy in outdoor writing. While still in his teens he had stories published in America's major sporting publications, including Field & Stream. At age 21, Heilner collaborated with friend and fellow angler Frank Stick to produce his first book, The Call of the Surf. Theirs was the first book ever published devoted exclusively to surf fishing. After his second book, Adventures in Angling, Heilner's reputation soared. Among many other associations, he was invited to become associate editor for Field & Stream, and to be a field representative in ichthyology for the American Museum of Natural History. Possibly his best known and most definitive work is Salt Water Fishing (1937). It became a best seller, possibly the first in angling history since Walton's The Compleat Angler.

Edition details

• Publisher: Surfcasting Rhode Island
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1424317002
• ISBN 13: 9781424317004
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 172