A Twitch Upon the Thread
Writers on Fishing
Seiten
2019
Notting Hill Editions (Verlag)
978-1-912559-13-8 (ISBN)
Notting Hill Editions (Verlag)
978-1-912559-13-8 (ISBN)
The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. Read it and be hooked. Includes contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Oto Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell and dozens more.
The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the reader from riverbank to open ocean, from England to New Zealand, from the shore to the depths. Read it and be hooked. Included are contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and dozens more.
The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the reader from riverbank to open ocean, from England to New Zealand, from the shore to the depths. Read it and be hooked. Included are contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and dozens more.
Jon Day is a writer, academic, and angler. He is a lecturer in English Literature at King's College London, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and many others. He is also a regular book critic for the Financial Times and the Telegraph. His first book, Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier, was published by Notting Hill Editions in 2015.
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.09.2019 |
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Einführung | Jon Day |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 120 x 190 mm |
Gewicht | 250 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport | |
ISBN-10 | 1-912559-13-7 / 1912559137 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-912559-13-8 / 9781912559138 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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