Description
| Product ID: | 9781912559138 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Twitch Upon the Thread |
| Subtitle: | Writers on Fishing |
| Page Count: | 168 |
| Subjects: | Biography and non-fiction prose, Prose: non-fiction, Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting, Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting |
| Description: | 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, Elizabeth Bishop, and dozens more. |
| Imprint Name: | Notting Hill Editions |
| Publisher Name: | Notting Hill Editions |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-05-02 |