Fishing From the Earliest Times - Couverture rigide

Radcliffe, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1297736524 ISBN 13 : 9781297736520

Editeur : Andesite Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Despite Francis Bacon sdictum that prefaces are great wastes of time, and, though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery, I hazard a few words as to this book, which, like Topsy, growed, I spects, from a chance request for a quotation from Homer on Fishing with a Rod for my sisters game-book. It is, as far as I can discover, the first attempt to examine classical and other ancient writers on Fishing from the standpoint of one who has not only been a practical Pisciculturist for many years and an Angler all his life, but has also been taught (though somewhat forgotten) his Greek and Latin, If my work, in the main, is necessarily based on the compilations of others, it yet by serendipity (to adopt Horace Walpole smintage) has unearthed some rare authors, who, judging from lack of mention, were unknown to previous writers on the subject. It contains also if I may venture a bravery several points which are apparently original.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Andesite Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1297736524
• ISBN 13: 9781297736520
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 550