An American Angler in Australia

Author: Zane Grey
Publisher: ETT Imprint
ISBN: 0648739090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
In 1936, the celebrated American author Zane Grey arrived in the sleepy New South Wales town of Bermagui, with the express reason of angling for the world's largest fish - Marlin, sharks and Swordfish. Here is his little classic of the chase. Four miles out I sighted a long sickle fin cutting through a swell. Did I yell, "Marlin!"? I certainly did. An instant later Peter sighted another farther out, and this tail fin belonged to a large fish. I could not tell whether or not it indicated a black marlin. It stood up three feet or more, and that much would make a tail spread of over six feet. These marlin were riding the swells and they were moving fast. The tails would come up out of the top of a swell and cut the water at more than a ten-knot speed. Then they would vanish. It is always necessary to run the boat in the right direction to head the fish off. The Avalon is fast - she can do eighteen knots when opened up - but we could not catch up with the big fellow.

An American Angler in Australi

Author: Zane Grey
Publisher: Wildside Press
ISBN: 9781434430496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Famous western author Zane Grey documents his fishing excursions in Australia. And don't miss Grey's companion volume, "Tales of the Angler's El Dorado, New Zealand," available in a matching edition.

American Angler in Australia

Author: Zane Grey
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The American Angler

Author: William Charles Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Outdoor Sports and American Angler

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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The Best of Zane Grey, Outdoorsman

Author: George Reiger
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811742016
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Stories by a master storyteller recapture an era of wild adventures, legendary sportsmen, and rugged landscapes in some of the world's most exotic locales.

Zane Grey on Fishing

Author: Terry Mort
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493084011
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Though he made his name and his fortune as an author of Western novels, Zane Grey's best writing has to do with fishing. There he was free from the conventions of the Western genre and the expectations of the market, and he was able to blend his talent for narrative with his keen eye for detail and humor, much of it self-deprecating, into books and articles that are both informative and exciting. His first published fishing article appeared in 1902, and he continued to write books and articles on angling until his death in 1939. From the trout streams and bass rivers of the East to the steelhead rivers of the Northwest; from the offshore angling of Nova Scotia and California to the unexplored waters of New Zealand and the South Sea islands, Grey was constantly in motion, sometimes fishing three hundred days a year, always writing to support his passion. At one time or another he held more than a dozen saltwater records, yet he always returned from the big game to the freshwater streams he had learned to love as a boy. This book is a selection of some of Grey's best work, and the stories and excerpts reveal a man who understood that angling is more than an activity-it is a way of seeing, a way of being more fully a part of the natural world. No writer exceeds Zane Grey's ability to integrate the fishing experience with a world he saw so vividly.

American Angler

Author:
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Category : Fly fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1018

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The Coast

Author: Chris Hammer
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522862179
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
From the winner of the ACT Book of the year Award for his first book, The River, comes this celebration of the Australian seascape, from its natural grandeur to the quirky individualism of those who live beside it. It is also the heartfelt and pertinent story of the issues facing our coast today and the resilience of communities at a turning point. Chris Hammer travels the length of the east coast of Australia on a journey of discovery and reflection, from the Torres Strait to Tasmania; from an island whose beach has been lost forever to the humbling optimism of the survivors of Cyclone yasi; from the showy beaches of Sydney to a beautiful village that endures despite the loss of its fishing fleet. This is a relevant, satisfying and highly readable book, imbued with a sense of optimism and humour. Even as new economic imperatives emerge and the shift in our climate becomes apparent, we can revel in the heritage and character of our shores, reminding us why the coast is so important to all of us.

American Tuna

Author: Andrew F. Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520261844
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
In a lively account of the American tuna industry's fortunes and misfortunes over the past century, a celebrated food writer relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertiliser to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the US. Tuna is both the subject and the backdrop for other facets of American history.