Going Fishing

A beautifully bound copy of American author and adventurer Negley Farson's classic work of fishing literature. The second impression of this work, published the year after the first.An autobiographical study of a life spent fishing, Farson described his vast experiences river fishing while travelling the world. With chapters on Pacific salmon, the Shetland Islands, Uxbridge, the Hebrides, Ireland, the Caucasus, Moscow, the Danube, erupting volcanoes in Chile, and both rural and urban life in England, France, and Norway.Illustrated with sixteen full page illustrations by renowned wildlife painter Charles Tunnicliffe, best know for his illustrations for the novel 'Tarka the Otter'.A beautifully bound copy of this classic fishing work. Rebound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine.