GLOBETROTTER'S QUEST: A WORLDWIDE SEARCH FOR CARP AND OTHER GIANT FISH. By Tony Davies-Patrick. De luxe limited edition.

2004 1st edition. 4to (205 x 265mm). Pp368. Colour photographs by the author throughout, photograph end-papers. Fully bound in dark brown bonded leather, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

"The highlights from 25 years of incredible global fishing expeditions." The author goes in search of the world's largest freshwater fish species. Superb photographs of huge Spanish barbel, carp fishing in Europe, South Africa, and the USA, sturgeon and Murray cod, mahseer and giant catfish. Chapters on fishing for Kasakhstan sturgeon, Chinese carping and New Zealand eel fishing by Jens Bursell, and on carp fishing in Japan by Steve Sands. Good appendix on angling species around the world including many species and varieties of carp, and of global introductions of common carp, Cyprinus carpio. This copy comes from a special edition of 250 copies bound in bonded leather and numbered in silver on the bottom right corner of the first free end-paper.