The breakthrough book by one of the country's finest fishing and travel writers, accompanying a new primetime BBC2 TV series
Charles Rangeley-Wilson is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. As well as having presented BBC TV's The Accidental Angler, he is The Field's fishing correspondent and contributes regularly to Gray's Sporting Journal, America's leading literary outdoor magazine. He was a founder of the Wild Trout Trust, and is the author of one previous book, Somewhere Else. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children.
Whether battling titantic monsters on a tropical atoll or chasing
phantom sea-trout in Southampton, Rangeley-Wilson attains cultural
and sociological insights into all manner of people and places.
*The Field*
Charles Rangeley-Wilson ... is fishing's high-priest. To the common
passion for the pastime, he adds an exceptional ability to write
well...And he has an acerbic eye
*The Times*
He has a good eye for river landscapes and for the otherworldly
movements of fish... There's a charm in this woozy prose, which has
a knack for snagging interesting turns of phrase
*Observer*
Thrilling, made me writhe with envy
*Sunday Telegraph*
His obsession becomes ours... Compellingly written
*Daily Mail*
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