BLACK GNAT. By John England. Illustrated by Alison Ryde. Foreword by Ludovic Kennedy.

1990 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 217mm). Pp132. B/w illustrations by Alison Ryde, patterned end-papers. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

Thoughts and reminiscences arising from forty years of flyfishing New Zealand's South Island. "Largely anecdotal in style, the people with whom the author has fished and all those who have affected his days with rod in hand are as much a part of the book as fishing itself. Written with humour in a simple style - whilst revealing a deep love of fly fishing and of the coutryside the author has come to know so well - is at the same time welcome armchair reading for all those who have become, in the time-honoured words of Izaak Walton, a brother of the angle."