It's been said that a fly rod is a magic wand that transports us to some of nature's loveliest places, which may help explain why more books have been written about trout fishing than about any other outdoor subject. The nature of this magnificent obsession - and those who are obsessed - is the subject of Halcyon Days. Angling historian Bryn Hammond paints a lush portrait of trout fishing and trout fishers, aided by the best of half a millennium of writings on the subject. The list of contributors reads like a who's who of angling literature: John Atherton, Gerald Eades Bentley, Dame Juliana Berners, J. W. Dunne, Negley Farson, Richard Franck, Arnold Gingrich, Sir Edward Grey, Roderick Haig-Brown, Frederic Halford, Captain G. D. Hamilton, Vernon Hidy, John Waller Hills, John Alden Knight, George LaBranche, Ben Hur Lampman, James E. Leisenring, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, A. A. Luce, Nick Lyons, John McDonald, Norman Maclean, the Reverend J. J. Manley, Alfred W. Miller, Arthur Ransome, Morley Roberts, Odell Shepard, G. E. M. Skues, Robert Traver, Henry Van Dyke, Bernard Venables, Izaak Walton, and Leonard M. Wright, among others. In his wide-ranging examination of subjects as diverse as Cruelty in Angling and Exact Imitation in Artificial Flies, Hammond gives us the really choice bits with which the great banquet of angling literature is so ungenerously sprinkled, and sharpens our appetite for more. This book celebrates a world where the important thing - the only thing - is going trout fishing. As Robert Traver (The Anatomy of a Murder) so wisely said: "I fish not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun."

Halcyon Days: The Nature of Trout Fishing and Fishermen

Sports & Outdoors

HAMMOND, Bryn

Hunting & Fishing

McGraw=Hill

Cambrai 1917

When the British dispatched 400 tanks against the German army at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, the result was a drawbut legend quickly declared the tank a winner following its first major role in combat. Bryn Hammond reveals that the narrative that emerged from this legendary battle was mostly a myth. The initial British successes were due to brilliant innovations in artillery, not tanksand tanks weren’t enough to keep the Germans from re-capturing their losses. But in this account of Cambrai, the first to appear in four decades, Hammond shows how generals and politicians seduced by the tank’s mythical abilities poured resources into creating a more mobile army in the following decades. By World War II, the tank would live up to its legend.

Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle

History

Military

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

When the British dispatched 400 tanks against the Germans at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, the result was a draw for the armiesbut a win for the tank, following its first major role in combat. But the initial British successes were due to innovations in artillery, not tanksand tanks didn’t keep the Germans from recapturing their losses. Bryn Hammond shows how generals and politicians seduced by the tank’s mythical abilities helped create a more mobile army in the following decades.

The New Zealand Encyclopedia of Fly Fishing

Reference

Halcyon Press

The battle of El Alamein in 1942 was one of the most crucial events in the entire Second World War. Before it, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else, even the Russians. At Alamein the British Eighth Army first thwarted the Axis attempts in North Africa to seize Cairo and the Suez Canal and then smashed through the German-Italian defences, eventually driving the Axis forces out of North Africa. This victory, by a 'British' army actually composed of a variety of nationalities including men and women from the Indian sub-continent, southern Africa, Australians, New Zealanders, French and Greeks, as well as British troops, had psychological and morale-raising significance that exceeded even its strategic importance. Nothing had the sweet smell of success prior to this battle than El Alamein and for the battered British Empire battling against the might of the Third Reich this victory was crucial to its ability to continue its war efforts. El Alamein's significance went beyond the events of the war. The opposing army commanders were perhaps the first 'celebrity' generals, attracting the attention of press and newsreel reporters alike. This led to a host of myths and tales of idiosyncratic behaviour that were shamelessly exploited by the individuals themselves and, especially in Britain, eagerly devoured by a public enamoured of the romance of warfare in this remarkable and hostile environment where men were at war with each other as well as with the elements. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline, giving the individual's point of view of the battle, from all sides, and provide a fascinating account of the minutiae detail of how war was actually fought alongside the analysis of the strategic decisions made by the generals. El Alamein 1942 is the story of exactly how a seemingly beaten and demoralized army turned near-defeat into victory in a little over four months of protracted and bloody fighting in the harsh North African desert and of the repercussions of the battle for the participants, for historians and in popular culture.

El Alamein: The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War (General Military)

Africa

Osprey_Publishing

Delightful discussion of trout fishing around the world and its many levels of enjoyment

Halcyon days: the nature of trout fishing and fishermen

Swan-Hill Press

Frontiers have always attracted the Other - where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know.\nAuthors include: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren Jackson, Toshiya Kamei, Catherine Lundoff, Bunny McFadden, Angus McIntyre, Atlin Merrick, Eleanor Musgrove, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Lauren Scharhag, Sara L. Uckelman, and Dawn Vogel.

Queer Weird West Tales

Literature & Fiction

Bozza, Julie

Gray, Roy

Gardner, Adele

Flores, Miguel

Grifant, KC

Bryson, J.A.

Chase, Dannye

Denton, S.E.

Hackney, Peter

Genre Fiction

Libratiger

In the steppes of High Asia, the year 1188... 'Jamuqa rode his trophy mare, off-white, black-pointed, on a Tartar seat, high arches of ornamental silver fore and aft. He wore a winterfur of snow leopard, near white with black whorls. The effect was kingly and fantastic: he might be Irle Khan himself, the king of ghosts, in his eery splendour.'Aged twenty, Temujin has been named Tchingis, khan over the Mongols. But only a third of his people accept a kingship based on dreams and omens. His own sworn brother Jamuqa challenges his title, and comes in the guise of a mock king against him. The steppe has been without a great khan for three hundred years - fragmented in the face of giant China. Are dreams and omens enough to unify its peoples? What makes a true king? Imaginary Kings is the second in a trilogy that gives voice to the Mongols in their explosive encounter with the great world under Tchingis Khan. Both epic and intimate, Amgalant sees the world through Mongol eyes. It's different from the world you know. 'Amgalant brings to life a complex, remote society with amazing immediacy'

Imaginary Kings (Amgalant)

Literary

Independently published

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