Fishing's Strangest Tales

AvTom Quinn

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Engelska, 2017

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Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history.Fishing''s Strangest Tales gathers together choice stories and bizarre fishing tales from all over the world. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Or how about the nine-year-old boy fishing for trout who caught a large mussel – containing no less than forty pearls – and managed to earn more in one day than his father, a farm worker, had earned in the last five years? Fishing''s Strangest Days is full of fascinating tales that may sound fishy and unbelievable but will have have you caught hook, line and sinker.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-16
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781911042846
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

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Tom Quinn has written on everything from steam railways, to country houses, the royal family, fishing and country crafts.He has written several books in the Strangest series including Fishing’s Strangest Tales and London’s Strangest Tales.He is also the author of four highly praised biographies of domestic servants, as well as biographies of the late Queen Mother’s favourite servant Backstairs Billy and of Edward VII’s favourite mistress, Alice Keppel. Other royal books include the bestselling Yes Ma’am, a history of royal servants, and Kensington Palace: An Intimate History. He has written for The Times, The Telegraph and Daily Mail as well as for numerous magazines.He appears regularly on BBC TV, ITV and radio to comment on fishing, social history, London history or the royal family.