Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons (Classic Reprint)

Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons (Classic Reprint)

Author: Alfred Henry Chaytor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780267420728

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Excerpt from Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons In the library of one enthusiastic angler - as Walton says now with God, a noted fisher both for Trout and Salmon, ' there were no less than two thousand seven hundred books upon fishing. So, you see, when any one is found with pen in hand writing a book upon angling he may well be called upon, as the lawyers are when they join their circuits, to state his pretensions.' And if it were only to avoid the appearance of teaching those who exceed himself in experi ence and in Skill he would probably wish to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Author: Paul Torday

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2008-04-21

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0547416253

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An unassuming scientist takes an unbelievable adventure in the Middle East in this “extraordinary” novel—the inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor (The Guardian). Dr. Alfred Jones lives a quiet, predictable life. He works as a civil servant for the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London; his wife, Mary, is a determined, no-nonsense financier; he has simple routines and unassuming ambitions. Then he meets Muhammad bin Zaidi bani Tihama, a Yemeni sheikh with money to spend and a fantastic—and ludicrous—dream of bringing the sport of salmon fishing to his home country. Suddenly, Dr. Jones is swept up in an outrageous plot to attempt the impossible, persuaded by both the sheikh himself and power-hungry members of the British government who want nothing more than to spend the sheikh’s considerable wealth. But somewhere amid the bureaucratic spin and Yemeni tall tales, Dr. Jones finds himself thinking bigger, bolder, and more impossibly than he ever has before. Told through letters, emails, interview transcripts, newspaper articles, and personal journal entries, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is “a triumph” that both takes aim at institutional absurdity and gives loving support to the ideas of hopes, dreams, and accomplishing the impossible (The Guardian).