where can i get passion for angling or the compleat angler or hyuel morgan fly fishing sorry about my spelling?
16.February, 2010
free if possible
i was talking about the tv show but tanks any way
You can find some amazing editions of "The Compleat Angler" by Izaak Walton on Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?q=compleat+angler&btnG=Search+Books
I’ve never looked at them all, but a couple years ago I found one that had some cool illustrations and exceedingly detailed footnotes. It was from the 1920s, I think (don’t have it with me). At first I just downloaded the Acrobat file and I would read it on my computer, but last year I printed the entire document (double sided) and then took it to a copy shop and had them cut it down to the original page size and bind it. Cost me about $2 in paper and about that much at the copy shop. It’s about 2 inches thick and has tons and tons of cool info and images in it. It also includes Joseph Cotton’s continuation of Izaak Walton’s story, which is worth having. You can get a copy of "The Compleat Angler" for a few dollars at any ordinary bookstore, but it will be nowhere near as jam-packed as some of those old, unavailable editions on Google Books.
Sorry — I’m not familiar with "Passion for Angling" and I didn’t find any free books by that name in Google Books. I did a quick search on Hyuel Morgan and found nothing at all related to fishing.
Seeing that you’re in the U.K., I might ask if you’ve ever read "Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days" by J.R. Hartley? That might be a dumb question, but is an such an excellent book, not to mention hysterically funny at times. I could never say enough good about it.
17.February, 2010 um 12:52 am
You can find some amazing editions of "The Compleat Angler" by Izaak Walton on Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?q=compleat+angler&btnG=Search+Books
I’ve never looked at them all, but a couple years ago I found one that had some cool illustrations and exceedingly detailed footnotes. It was from the 1920s, I think (don’t have it with me). At first I just downloaded the Acrobat file and I would read it on my computer, but last year I printed the entire document (double sided) and then took it to a copy shop and had them cut it down to the original page size and bind it. Cost me about $2 in paper and about that much at the copy shop. It’s about 2 inches thick and has tons and tons of cool info and images in it. It also includes Joseph Cotton’s continuation of Izaak Walton’s story, which is worth having. You can get a copy of "The Compleat Angler" for a few dollars at any ordinary bookstore, but it will be nowhere near as jam-packed as some of those old, unavailable editions on Google Books.
Sorry — I’m not familiar with "Passion for Angling" and I didn’t find any free books by that name in Google Books. I did a quick search on Hyuel Morgan and found nothing at all related to fishing.
Seeing that you’re in the U.K., I might ask if you’ve ever read "Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days" by J.R. Hartley? That might be a dumb question, but is an such an excellent book, not to mention hysterically funny at times. I could never say enough good about it.
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17.February, 2010 um 1:29 am
unless someone here hears your plea and donates you one, probably none free.
although, while in jr high school, the school librarian gave me a pile of old fishing books which included, by the way, a copy of walton’s treatise. printed in late 1800s. by no means a first edition, but still old.
check all the schools and libraries locally. a possibility.
beside google, you also have amazon books and ebay. between the 3, probably every book ever written.
another hysterical fishing book to look for would be "How to Fish Good" by Milford "Stanley" Poltroon. a great little out of print soft-back published by West Yellowstone Press.
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