Bøker av Charles Rangeley-Wilson

We learn how abundant and valued these fish were centuries before our current crisis of over-fishing: we learn how eels built our monasteries, how cod sank the Spanish Armada, how fish and chips helped us through two World Wars.

At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse, and is soon lost under the car parks and streets of the town its waters once gave life to.

Takes us from London suburbs to Bhutan, Icelandic moonscapes to the Seychelles. This work shows how fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. A fishing rod can also break the ice with locals, guides, farmers, shopkeepers, taxi drivers and bar-flies.

In fourteen beautifully crafted stories Charles Rangeley-Wilson takes us around the world, from Arctic Quebec to upland Croatia, from the Scottish islands to the Northern Territories, always journeying into the heart of the landscape to meet ordinary, extraordinary people.