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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Charles Rangeley-WilsonPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.268kg ISBN: 9780099554660ISBN 10: 0099554666 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 03 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsCaptures lyrically the note of melancholy in the English landscape -- Peter Stanford Tablet Through a slightly eclectic mix of historic record and rueful reflection, [Rangeley-Wilson] has crafted a book which joins the elite of angling books; it holds its own among great books, not just angling books Slough Express Sometimes fascinating, often very beautiful, occasionally shocking and sombre. Fans of Robert Macfarlane's Wild Places will love it (5 star review) -- Phoebe Smith Wanderlust A rich dowsing-out of a lost river and its stories; a passionate pursuit of landscape ghosts. -- Robert MacFarlane By turns learned and lyrical, this is a great swirl of a book - luminously well written, and as intriguing as a cabinet of curiosities. -- David Profumo A rich dowsing-out of a lost river and its stories; a passionate pursuit of landscape ghosts. -- Robert MacFarlane A work of extraordinary power and resonance -- Melissa Harrison Financial Times Passionate, persuasive and personal...it is an elegy to a fascinating world of which many of us have lost sight -- Anthony Sattin Sunday Times Superb book... Its story is an acute example of the criminal disregard our nation has had for these remarkable rivers -- Mark Lloyd BBC Countryfile Silt Road is that rare ting: a book that is able to marry exacting research with imaginative fluency, told in language as pliant and revealing as water Earthlines Author InformationCharles Rangeley-Wilson is an award-winning writer. He is a passionate conservationist, founder of the Wild Trout Trust and the Norfolk Rivers Trust and advisor to WWF on English chalk streams. He is the author of two books of travel and fishing writing, Somewhere Else and The Accidental Angler, which was also televised by the BBC. His other work for BBC includes the critically acclaimed film Fish! A Japanese Obsession. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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