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In14 beautifully crafted nonfictionstories, the author takesreaders fly-fishing around the world, from Canadian forests to upland Croatia, from Scottish islands to London suburbs, always journeying into the heart of the landscape to meet ordinary, extraordinary people. This darkly humorous collection is destined to become, like Thomas McGuane s "The Longest Silence," a classic of the genre."

This work features stories that take us from London suburbs to Bhutan, the Soviet wilderness to the Seychelles - anywhere a fishing rod leads. It helps you battle titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash.

We learn how abundant and valued these fish were centuries before our current crisis of over-fishing: we learn how eels built our monasteries, how cod sank the Spanish Armada, how fish and chips helped us through two World Wars.

At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse, and is soon lost under the car parks and streets of the town its waters once gave life to. Captivated by the fate of this forgotten stream Charles Rangeley-Wilson sets out one winter's day to uncover its story. Distilled into the timeless passage of the river's flow, buried under the pavements that cover meadow, marsh and hill he finds dreamers and visionaries, a chronicle of paradises lost or never found, men who shaped the land and its history.