My Sporting Life by John Waller Hills Fly Fishing HC / Slip Cased / 116/950

Description: My Sporting Life by John Waller Hills Fly Fishing HC / Slip Cased / 116/950. Condition: like new. (Hardcover, 2000). (1936) 2000 new edition.8vo (160 x 240mm). 298 pages, Sepia frontispiece photograph portrait. Full burnt-orange bonded leather, spine titled in gilt, FFCL logo to upper board, top edge gilt, printed marbled endpapers, silk marker, in cloth slipcase. This is number 116 of 950 numbered copies.Book Summary: Chalk-stream trout fishing, Cumbrian salmon and trout, Scottish deer stalking. The tale Hills tells of his own education on Test, Itchen, Kennet, and Driffield Beck, and of his broad-minded resolution of North and South Country styles provides a valuable part of angling history. He also describes salmon fishing on the Dee, the Spey, and in Norway, and recollects hunting expeditions in places as diverse as Canada and Uruguay and even parts of the USA. But perhaps the most interesting part of the book contains extracts from his angling diaries. Hills' method was not the terse 'game book' form - he adopted the more ambitious way of writing a reasoned and self-critical account of each day's fishing. Raw material of this sort is extremely uncommon in the literature of fishing and adds enormously to the interest of this book. This edition contains an extremely well researched Introduction by Dr Tony Hayter about the life, career and fishing of Hills and a Foreword by Tom Fort who ends: "All I can say is that - if you care anything for fish and rivers and wild places and good writing [buying this book]... it will have been money well spent.Please look over the photographs carefully for the overall condition of the book. I only ship to the lower 48 states.

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Location: Chaska, Minnesota

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