Publisher's Synopsis
Arthur Ransome began to fish as a boy in the Lake District, but the pursuit became almost an obsession when he lived in Russia during World War I and reported the Revolution and its aftermath for "The Daily News" and "The Manchester Guardian". When he returned to England with Trotsky's secretary as his wife, he settled in Lakeland and began his four-year weekly column, "Rod and Line", for "The Guardian", stopping only to write the 12 "Swallows and Amazons" books for children which made him famous. Although he published a few of these and other fishing essays in two books, "Rod and Line" and "Mainly about Fishing", most of his writing and broadcasting on the subject has never appeared in book form.;This volume not only tells of Ransome's fishing adventures - in exotic places with men of history, or by small English streams with unknown, eccentric compatriots - but it rescues many of Ransome's fishing articles from the oblivion of the archive shelf.
