Author : A. Bryan Williams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330119563
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Book Synopsis Rod Creel in British Columbia by : A. Bryan Williams
Download or read book Rod Creel in British Columbia written by A. Bryan Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rod Creel in British Columbia "Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is alone, All other pastimes do no less Than mind and body both possess! My hand alone my work can do So I can fish and study, too." The above lines are taken from the "Compleat Angler," the most famous book on fishing ever written or likely to be written, by Isaac Walton, than whom no greater fisherman ever lived. Isaac Walton was born at Stafford in England in the year 1593, but it was not until the year 1653 that the first edition of his book was published. How many editions have since been published cannot be exactly stated, but there were five alone in the thirty years he lived after the book was written (he was just 90 when he died) and over a hundred editions since. The book itself, of course, is now of little value as a treatise, but as Lamb said, "It would sweeten a mans temper at any time to read it," and it seems to show what a gentle, kindly, sincere spirit the ideal angler should be. "Of all sports and recreations there is nothing like fishing, in which a person is so entirely dependent upon the skill of his own hand, combined with a well-developed store of patience and perseverance. "Of all sports there is nothing like fishing, which will develop the above traits and tend to make a man of kindly, upright disposition and keep him both physically and morally healthy. Of all sports there is nothing like fishing, which will keep a youngster out of mischief and mould his character along the right lines." The famous Dr. Samuel Johnson, though he was a great admirer of Walton's book, once described fishing as "a rod and line with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." There have been more jokes made about fishermen than any other class of sportsmen. 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.
