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Fishing Giants and Other Men of Derring-Do: Amazing Tales of Extraordinary Sportsmen
Fishing Giants and Other Men of Derring-Do Amazing Tales of Extraordinary Sportsmen Author:Robert H Boyle Robert H. Boyle collects eccentrics the way the characters he brilliantly portrays collect flies or trophies. These profiles, most of which have appeared in Sports Illustrated over the past three decades, are by turns outrageous, hilarious, and ingenious. These are men who live two lives in one: on the surface they are novelists (including two l... more »iterary giants: Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce); inventors; scientists; businessmen; entrepreneurs; but what moves them are their passions. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 248 pages)« less