davestocker
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Got forwarded a release from the publisher of the book to accompany it. I assume this is pukka;
Charles Rangeley-Wilson is one of Britain's best-kept secrets. He's an angler, conservationist, traveller, and also one of our finest fishing writers and an award-winning journalist. He is also about to become a very familiar TV personality...
Published to accompany Charles's new primetime BBC TV series which is broadcast from Wed 18th October on BBC 2, The Accidental Angler takes us from the neglected, hidden rivers of London, to Bhutan, Icelandic moonscapes and even to the Seychelles - in fact pretty much anywhere a fishing rod leads.
Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will introduce you to crabby weather and crabby locals, remarkable tales, and fantastic slippery beasts. And as Charles discovers, a fishing rod will break the ice with local - guides, farmers, shopkeepers, taxi drivers and bar-flies - and take you to the heart of the landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match.
In the book, The Accidental Angler, you'll visit 13 different places.
You'll
battle titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash. You'll chase inscrutable grayling through back gardens in Provence, or phantom sea trout in downtown Southampton. And you'll run away from pill-popping Icelandic farmers and find secret rivers hidden beneath the streets in London. This is a journey that makes the familiar new and the strange familiar.
So who's the Author and TV Presenter?....Charles Rangeley-Wilson is The Field's fishing correspondent and contributes regularly to Gray's Sporting Journal, America's leading literary outdoor magazine.. In 2000 he won the PPA (Periodical Publishers Association) 'Specialist Features Writer of the Year'
Award, and in 2001 was short-listed for IPC Media 'Writer of the Year'
Award.
In 1997 he was a founder of the Wild Trout Trust. The WTT is a charitable trust promoting restoration and conservation work on degraded rivers.
It has
2000 members, and is supported by English Nature, the Environment Agency and the National Trust.
Charles Rangeley-Wilson is one of Britain's best-kept secrets. He's an angler, conservationist, traveller, and also one of our finest fishing writers and an award-winning journalist. He is also about to become a very familiar TV personality...
Published to accompany Charles's new primetime BBC TV series which is broadcast from Wed 18th October on BBC 2, The Accidental Angler takes us from the neglected, hidden rivers of London, to Bhutan, Icelandic moonscapes and even to the Seychelles - in fact pretty much anywhere a fishing rod leads.
Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will introduce you to crabby weather and crabby locals, remarkable tales, and fantastic slippery beasts. And as Charles discovers, a fishing rod will break the ice with local - guides, farmers, shopkeepers, taxi drivers and bar-flies - and take you to the heart of the landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match.
In the book, The Accidental Angler, you'll visit 13 different places.
You'll
battle titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash. You'll chase inscrutable grayling through back gardens in Provence, or phantom sea trout in downtown Southampton. And you'll run away from pill-popping Icelandic farmers and find secret rivers hidden beneath the streets in London. This is a journey that makes the familiar new and the strange familiar.
So who's the Author and TV Presenter?....Charles Rangeley-Wilson is The Field's fishing correspondent and contributes regularly to Gray's Sporting Journal, America's leading literary outdoor magazine.. In 2000 he won the PPA (Periodical Publishers Association) 'Specialist Features Writer of the Year'
Award, and in 2001 was short-listed for IPC Media 'Writer of the Year'
Award.
In 1997 he was a founder of the Wild Trout Trust. The WTT is a charitable trust promoting restoration and conservation work on degraded rivers.
It has
2000 members, and is supported by English Nature, the Environment Agency and the National Trust.