FISHERMAN'S PARADISE. By Jack Hambleton.

1946 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 203mm). Ppxvi,172. Colour paintings of trout and other fish, b/w photograph plates. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Jack Hambleton was a prolific and popular Canadian author of outdoor novels for boys. This book describes fishing in eastern Canada, mainly in Ontario - where to go, what you can catch, general advice, anecdotes from the author's own experiences. The book is divided into six parts: Part One: Fish tales, Algonquin Park, Gull Lake, Saymo Lake, Timagami and elsewhere. Part Two: Bait casting and fly casting, still fishing, fish and water, our game fish, muskellunge, lake trout, bass, pike, squaretails, pickerel. Part Three: Hints, weather, fish tables, smoking fish, snakes and wolves, precautions and first aid, typhoid fever, chlorinating water, care of the eyes, poison ivy, poison sumac, sunburn, frost bites, mosquitoes, first aid hints. Part Four: Conservation and government administration, aircraft fishing and bush pilots, flying fields. Part Five: fishing camps, guides and equipment, outboard motors, boats and canoes, sleeping bags and tents, camping and fires, the preparation, the journey, the return, food list and cooking. Part Six: Transportation, information and reservations, where to go, the Albany Watershed, how to enter Ontario, the end of the line.