Author: W. Blacker
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"I have endeavored in the following treatise on Fly-making, to divest the subject, as far as possible, of all technicalities and superfluities; at the same time, I have entered into such full details in the construction of the Fly, that by adopting the process I have pointed out, and following the instructions I have given, the aspirants to the art of Fly-making may speedily become proficients." 'Blacker's Art of Fly Making' is a guide book by fishing expert William Blacker. He recalls his days as a fly fisher in Britain Hibernia and his native home, Ireland.
Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c
Author: W. Blacker
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"I have endeavored in the following treatise on Fly-making, to divest the subject, as far as possible, of all technicalities and superfluities; at the same time, I have entered into such full details in the construction of the Fly, that by adopting the process I have pointed out, and following the instructions I have given, the aspirants to the art of Fly-making may speedily become proficients." 'Blacker's Art of Fly Making' is a guide book by fishing expert William Blacker. He recalls his days as a fly fisher in Britain Hibernia and his native home, Ireland.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"I have endeavored in the following treatise on Fly-making, to divest the subject, as far as possible, of all technicalities and superfluities; at the same time, I have entered into such full details in the construction of the Fly, that by adopting the process I have pointed out, and following the instructions I have given, the aspirants to the art of Fly-making may speedily become proficients." 'Blacker's Art of Fly Making' is a guide book by fishing expert William Blacker. He recalls his days as a fly fisher in Britain Hibernia and his native home, Ireland.
Blacker's Art of Flymaking
Author: William Blacker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Feather Thief
Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981636
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor From the author of The Fishermen and the Dragon, a rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981636
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor From the author of The Fishermen and the Dragon, a rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Fishing Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Catalogue of Books on Angling, Hunting, Shooting, Natural History, &c
Author: Henry Thorpe (Bookseller)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Class List of the Books in the Reference Library
Author: Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Sports, Pastimes, Arts, Sciences
Author: Pickering & Chatto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Catalogue of Additions to the Library of the United States Patent Office
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385301327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385301327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of Additions of the Library of the United States Patent Office
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description