Author: Izaak WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Compleat Angler
Author: Izaak WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Introduction to the Compleat Angler
Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465600914
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The few events in the long life of Izaak Walton have been carefully investigated by Sir Harris Nicolas. All that can be extricated from documents by the alchemy of research has been selected, and I am unaware of any important acquisitions since Sir Harris NicolasÕs second edition of 1860. Izaak was of an old family of Staffordshire yeomen, probably descendants of George Walton of Yoxhall, who died in 1571. IzaakÕs father was Jarvis Walton, who died in February 1595-6; of IzaakÕs mother nothing is known. Izaak himself was born at Stafford, on August 9, 1593, and was baptized on September 21. He died on December 15, 1683, having lived in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., under the Commonwealth, and under Charles II. The anxious and changeful age through which he passed is in contrast with his very pacific character and tranquil pursuits. Of WaltonÕs education nothing is known, except on the evidence of his writings. He may have read Latin, but most of the books he cites had English translations. Did he learn his religion from Ôhis mother or his nurseÕ? It will be seen that the free speculation of his age left him untouched: perhaps his piety was awakened, from childhood, under the instruction of a pious mother. Had he been orphaned of both parents (as has been suggested) he might have been less amenable to authority, and a less notable example of the virtues which Anglicanism so vainly opposed to Puritanismism. His literary beginnings are obscure.
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
Author: Lawrence WeschlerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
Introduction to the Compleat Angler
Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040827938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Compleat Angler
Author: Izaak WaltonPublisher: J. Missouri
ISBN: 9781940777009
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton's fishing classic, is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing. Through prose, verse, song, and folklore, Walton inspires readers to go into nature -- to go to its meandering streams and rivers -- and fish. Walton teaches us about a life filled with harmony between nature, man, and God; and a life spent in the company of friends and free from the hustle of the city.
Izaak Walton's the Compleat Angler
Author: Izaak WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson
Author: Izaak WaltonThe Audubon Reader
Author: John James AudubonPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712704
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville. Audubon’s award-winning biographer, Richard Rhodes, has gathered excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works, and has organized them to appeal to general readers. Rhodes’s unobtrusive commentary frames a wide range of selections, including Audubon’s vivid “bird biographies,” correspondence with his devoted wife, Lucy, journal accounts of dramatic river journeys and hunting trips with the Shawnee and Osage Indians, and a generous sampling of brief narrative episodes that have long been out of print—engaging stories of pioneer life such as "The Great Pine Swamp," “The Earthquake,” and “Kentucky Barbecue on the Fourth of July.” Full-color reproductions of sixteen of Audubon’s stunning watercolor illustrations accompany the text. The Audubon Reader allows us to experience Audubon’s distinctive voice directly and provides a window into his electrifying encounter with early America: with its wildlife and birds, its people, and its primordial wilderness.
Hemingway on Fishing
Author: Ernest HemingwayPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476716412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"Hemingway on Fishing is an encompassing, diverse, and fascinating assemblage. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises to such late novels as Islands in the Stream, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer's passion, the range of his interests, and the sure use he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature."--Jacket.
The Compleat Brown Trout
Author: Cecil E. HeacoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description