The Salmon (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 4 de dez. de 2017 - 332 páginas Excerpt from The Salmon The able author of the Badminton volume 'on fishing writes of the great progress of our knowledge on the subject during the last two decades. 'no doubt some problems have been solved by experi ment and observation, but I incline to rather a modest view of the advance made, and to dwell upon the difficulties still unsolved, rather than upon the additions made to our stock of positive information. Let me take Old Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, ' published in 1653, to see what was known at that time by that not very accurate compiler and observer, premising that most of his information was what lawyers would call hearsay' only, and that it is not certain that he ever saw a live salmon in his life. It is true that he makes a casual allusion to having caught them; but he gives no account of 3his adventures with them and they did not haunt his usual hunting grounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
