THE LIGHTNING THREAD: Fishological Moments and The Pursuit of Paradise. By David Profumo.

Profumo (David) & Swift (Graham).

ISBN 10: 1471186555 / ISBN 13: 9781471186554

Published by Simon & Schuster. London. 2021, 2021

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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. 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. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LIGHTNING THREAD: Fishological Moments and The Pursuit of Paradise. By David Profumo.
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster. London. 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1471186555
• ISBN 13: 9781471186554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

From award winning novelist and journalist David Profumo comes a dazzling work about the restorative power of nature and finding joy in simple pleasures. 

'David Profumo has fished everywhere man and boy, and come back with his creel crammed with adventures and misadventures - a memoir for every fisherman’s 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 mankind’s 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 life’s 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 man’s quest for perfection.


‘With wit, quiet craft, and a lifetime’s 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 memoir…spiked with wit and crafted with precision and style.’ Loyd Grossman

‘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

'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.' Thomas McGuane, author of The Longest Silence