Itchen Memories: Modern Fishing Classics

Skues, G.E.M.

David&Charles

Attorney G. E. M. Skues drew upon his vast experience as a recreational fisherman to write this masterpiece of the fly fishing genre, in which he established sunken flies as essential tools for the well-equipped angler. Originally published in 1921, this seminal book retains its relevance in a world in which the quiet pleasures of river fishing remain unchanged. Professional, competitive, and amateur fishermen as well as beginners will appreciate its timeless wisdom. British fly fishing historian Dr. Andrew Herd hailed the author as "without any doubt one of the greatest trout fishermen that ever lived. His achievement was the invention of fly fishing with the nymph, a discovery that put a full stop to half a century of stagnation in wet fly fishing for trout, and formed the bedrock for modern sunk fly fishing." Paul Schullery, an American fly fishing historian, seconds this view, adding, "[Skues] was also a modest, humorous, and warmly accessible writer whose writings never lost sympathy for his fellow anglers. His self-deprecating and deceptively simple-sounding writings on trout and fly fishing remain among the wisest and most revealing in the sport's enormous literature."

Fly Fishing: The Way of a Trout With a Fly

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Dover Publications

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, Impeccable copy of a fascinating fishing memoir; laminated dj, brown cloth cover; all illustrations intact and clear

The way of a man with a trout

E. Benn

More than a mere collection of fishy tales and of days long past spent pottering beside the river, Itchen Memories concerns just one very special stretch of this lovely chalk stream in Hampshire. For centuries Abbotts Barton, the Itchen’s watery maze of carriers, ditches, and drains that criss-cross Winchester’s northern water-meadow, has delighted both angler and trout alike. In Itchen Memories, G.E.M. Skues, the greatest innovative angler of modern times, lovingly describes the people, the wildlife, the setting, and his encounters with the fish in the place known as the very cradle of modern-day fly-fishing. A classic of 20th-century angling literature, Itchen Memories conveys a true passion for fly-fishing in a way that will be appreciated not only by anglers, but also by those who wish to experience the untroubled beauty of England’s countryside between the wars, viewed through the eyes of a naturally gifted writer. Now completely reset and beautifully presented with the original line drawings by Alex Jardine, Itchen Memories also features an introduction by Roy Darlington, long-time admirer of G.E.M. Skues and formerly lease-holder of the Abbotts Barton Fishery.

Itchen Memories

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Robert_Hale

, xviii, 271 pages, [1], with three plates and two additional chapters, complete

The Way of a Trout with a Fly and Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics

Adam Charles Black

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, This volume combines two books by Skues, the first published in 1910, the second in 1939. Aside from sunning having altered the spine of the glossy brown dj to green, this copy of a very collectable book is in pristine (VG+) condition, very lightly (if at all) used.

Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout and Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream

Adam and Charles Black

The Angling Letters of G.E.M. Skues

Walker, C.F.

A C Black Publishers Ltd

Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and Kindred Studies

History

BiblioLife

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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