Arthur Ransome on Fishing - Softcover

Swift, Jeremy

 
9780224042369: Arthur Ransome on Fishing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022404236X ISBN 13: 9780224042369
Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Arthur Ransome began to fish as a boy in the Lake District, but the pursuit became almost an obsession when he lived in Russia during the First World War and reported on the Revolution and its aftermath for the Daily News and Manchester Guardian. When he returned to England with Trotsky's secretary as his wife, he settled in Lakeland and began his four-year weekly column Rod and Line for the Guardian, stopping only to write the twelve Swallows and Amazons books for children which made him famous. Although he published a few of these and other fishing essays in two books, Rod and Line and Mainly about Fishing, most of his writing and broadcasting on the subject - among the best things he did - have never appeared in book form. Michael Hordern celebrated a few of these revealing and often very funny writings for a new audience when he played Ransome in a 1970s TV series based on Rod and Line, and Ransome is still today considered an aficionado of the quiet sport. Jeremy Swift's book not only tells for the first time of Ransome's fishing adventures - in exotic places with men of history or by small English streams with unknown, eccentric fellow countrymen - it rescues many of Ransome's best fishing articles from the undeserved oblivion of the archive shelf. His book is a sheer joy.

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Arthur Ransome began to fish as a boy in the Lake District, but the pursuit became almost an obsession when he lived in Russia during the First World War and reported on the Revolution and its aftermath for the Daily News and Manchester Guardian. When he returned to England with Trotsky's secretary as his wife, he settled in Lakeland and began his four-year weekly column Rod and Line for the Guardian, stopping only to write the twelve Swallows and Amazons books for children which made him famous. Although he published a few of these and other fishing essays in two books, Rod and Line and Mainly about Fishing, most of his writing and broadcasting on the subject - among the best things he did - have never appeared in book form. Michael Hordern celebrated a few of these revealing and often very funny writings for a new audience when he played Ransome in a 1970s TV series based on Rod and Line, and Ransome is still today considered an aficionado of the quiet sport. Jeremy Swift's book not only tells for the first time of Ransome's fishing adventures - in exotic places with men of history or by small English streams with unknown, eccentric fellow countrymen - it rescues many of Ransome's best fishing articles from the undeserved oblivion of the archive shelf. His book is a sheer joy.

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Verlag
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022404236X
ISBN 13 
9780224042369
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
280
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