In 14 beautifully crafted nonfiction stories, the author takes readers 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.

Somewhere Else

Sports & Outdoors

Rangeley-Wilson, Charles

Hunting & Fishing

Yellow Jersey

In this follow-up to the acclaimed Somewhere Else, come fifteen new fishing stories, which take us from London suburbs to Bhutan, the Soviet wilderness to the Seychelles — anywhere that a fishing rod can break the ice with the locals.

The Accidental Angler

Yellow Jersey Press

Meet Charles Rangeley-Wilson, angler, conservationist, and traveler. In this broad look at fishing around the world, Rangeley-Wilson travels from city suburbs to Bhutan, from Icelandic moonscapes to the Seychelles—anywhere, in fact, his fishing rod leads. He battles titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash; he chases inscrutable grayling through back gardens in Provence and phantom sea trout. Along the way he discovers that fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. A fishing rod will break the ice with locals, guides, farmers, shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and barflies. Fishing introduces Rangeley-Wilson to crabby weather and crabbier locals, moon-phases, riptides, floods, droughts, remarkable tales, and of course fantastic slippery beasts.

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Silver Shoals: Five Fish That Made Britain

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Vintage

Silver Shoals tells the story of fish in Britain and the fishermen whose lives are bound up with them. 
Using the compass points as a structure, Charles Rangeley Wilson looks at cod in the North, eels in the East, Carp in the South, salmon in the West, and bookends this with a meditation on the herring seas of his Norfolk village. Charles meets fishermen up and down the country and hears their story. His journey includes an unforgettable ten days on an North Atlantic Trawler, an attempt to bag his first elusive carp, afternoons wiled away with Fenland eel netters, and a near-futile search for the last remaining East coast herring boats. Underpinning this journey is a bigger historical exploration of these creatures that shaped our island story. We learn how, centuries before our current crisis of over-fishing, fish were caught and sold in their millions; it was for good reason this scaly currency was once dubbed 'fish silver'. And we see how fish and fishing have long imprinted our landscape, from the astonishing historical migratory patterns of salmon to the carp whose ponds shaped our medieval topography. Of course there is an environmental dimension to the story of fish. But Charles' optimistic perspective is this: no one is more invested in fish than the fishermen whose lives depend on them. If we can find a way to harness that, as has begun in countries like Iceland, then the future of fish in Britain could be as extraordinary as its past.

Silver Shoals: The Five Fish That Made Britain

Chatto&Windus

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