The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing; In Two Parts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing; In Two PartsAnd no man imagine, that a work on such a subject must necessarily be unentertaining, or trifling, or even uninstructive; for the congery will most evi dentl ap r, from a perusal of t is excellent piece, whio w we consider the elegant simplicity of the style them and unaffected humour of the dialogue, the love y scenes which it delineates, the enchanting pastoral poetry which it contains, or the fine morality tt so sweetly inculcates - has hardly its fellow in any of the modern languages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.