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Lord Grey on Fly-fishing: A Handbook for Passionate Anglers (Fly-Fishing Classics)
Lord Grey on Flyfishing A Handbook for Passionate Anglers - Fly-Fishing Classics Author:Paul Schullery "Read Grey for his greater lessons. Read him for his wonderful turns of phrase, such as his 'exquisite blend of joy and fear' upon hooking a trout, and the 'delicious sense of impending discovery' the alert angler has on the stream. And read him for his enduring passion for fly fishing."--Paul Schullery, from the introduction :Edward Grey (1862-... more »1933) was as serious an angler as you'll find in the sport's long history, and his book Fly Fishing (first published in 1899) has many things to tell us. Grey lived during the exciting period of the dry-fly revolution in the UK and was exposed to the revolutionary and controversial new theories of Frederic Halford, George Selwyn Marryat, and other pioneers in modern dry-fly theory. In 1886 he became the youngest member of the House of Commons and spent much of his life thereafter embroiled in both national and international issues, serving in the cabinet as foreign secretary through the extraordinarily tumultuous decade of 1905-1916. Yet every October he began to obsess about the coming salmon season, six months away: "I lay awake in bed fishing in imagination the pools which I was not going to see before March at the earliest." It's that passion for fishing that's prevalent in the selections in Lord Grey on Fly Fishing.« less