Research Catalog

Title

The fireside book of fishing : a selection from the great literature of angling / edited by Raymond R. Camp ; illustrations by William K. Plummer.

Author

Camp, Raymond R. (Raymond Russell), 1908-1962

Publication

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1959.

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Details

Additional Authors

Plummer, William K.

Description

xi, 500 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Fishing
• English literature
• American literature
• fishing

Genre/Form

Literature.

Note

• Illustrated lining papers.

Contents

Owen's adventure / Robert Allan -- In the rainbow kingdom / Russell Annabel -- Barker's delight / Thomas Barker -- Fishing (poem) / Reverend Thomas Bastard -- Daniel Webster and the sea serpent / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Some field problems and their solutions / Ray Bergman -- On the Loch / William Black -- Crocker's hole / R.D. Blackmore -- Rajah's rock / Paul Hyde Bonner -- The shining tides / Win Brooks -- Dirty work at the covered bridge / Paul Brown -- Old Etonian tramp / John Buchan -- Stouthearted men / Raymond R. Camp -- The two brothers (poem) / Lewis Carroll -- The hole / Guy De Maupassant -- The devout angler (poem) / Colin D.B. Ellis -- Peru / S. Kip Farrington -- Trouting along the Catasauqua / Frank Forester -- When is a rainbow / Roderick Haig-Brown -- Bonefish / Van Campen Heilner -- Big Two-Hearted River / Ernest Hemingway -- Storytelling on the Thames / Jerome K. Jerome -- Bass are bass / Arthur R. Mac Dougal, Jr. -- Spinning for fresh and salt water fish / A.J. Mc Clane -- Introduction, the complete fly fisherman / John Mc Donald -- Fishing the dry fly on quiet waters / Vincent Marinaro -- Three bottles of claret / W.C Prime -- Silver trout / Sir R.H. Roberts -- Mr. Theodore Castwell / G.E.M. Skues -- Angler, beware / Edmund Ware Smith -- Lotus eaters -- ; Murder / Sparse Grey Hackle -- Black salmon / Arthur Train -- In defense of worms / F.F. Van De Water -- Old poacher's return / Howard T. Waldon -- Thomasheen James and the absent-minded professor / Maurice Walsh -- The fourth day / Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton -- The Thames at Halliford / J.P. Wheeldon -- Chet McAusland of fraternity / Ben Ames Williams -- The Redds / Henry Williamson -- The visiting fire-eater / Philip Wylie -- The truth about Izaak Walton / Ed Zern.

LCCN

59013133

OCLC

• ocm01282688
• 1282688
• SCSB-2030983

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library