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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2021). 2021 1st edition. 8vo hardback (157 x 241mm). Ppx,454. Not illustrated, lime end-papers. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight tanning else very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Not signed. ".a towering work that will be ranked among the greatest literature ever written on the sport of angling." (Keith Elliott). "The Lightning Thread is a delicious account of a lifetime spent among interesting fish, people and places by a compulsive angler who seems to have forgotten nothing. Unimaginable that any fisherman could put it down." (Tom McGuane). Chapters include: Wittgenstein's cornflakes; The House of Tongue; Of small fry; The airman and the admiral; Of Walton and other writers; Borderland; Of nothing; Hinterland; Of monsters; The chalk spider; Of collecting; The lightning thread; Of gillies and guidelines; Below the salt; Of eating and drinking; The Mojito Coast; Of weather and superstition; Creatures of light; Of paradise; The trout don't rise in Green Wood cemeterary; Bibliography. . …