SCOTLAND'S SALMON KING. By Colin Leslie.

2008 1st edition. 8vo (162 x 240mm). Ppviii,61,ad. B/w photographs. Blue paper-covered boards, spine titled in gilt.

The author "spent over 50 years as a ghillie on the River Tay in Perthshire, when he was lucky enough to have a job which he enjoyed as a hobby, and which has been very eventful, both in terms of the fish he has caught and the people he has met whilst catching them. In this amusing and poignant account the author talks about the many interesting characters he has had the pleasure (or otherwise) of meeting, and also describes the way fishing, and other countryside pursuits, have changed over the years". Includes much autobiographical material about the author's time in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.