SIX MONTHS IN SCOTLAND: AN AMERICAN VIEW OF ITS SALMON FISHING. By Sylvester Nemes.

1998 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 198mm). Ppv,146. Colour photographs, end-paper map, bibliography. Purple boards, spine titled in gilt.

Syl Nemes exchanged his house in Montana for one close to the Aberdeenshire Dee for the Autumn of 1996. Lots of good stuff on flies, on the history of Scottish salmon fishing, and on where and how to fish today. Chapters include: The Don and Salar's nemesis; The Royal Dee; AHE Wood and Sheriff Dallas; The North Esk; The Beauly; The Inver, Kirkaig, Oykel and Dionard Rivers; The law of salmon fishing in Scotland; Salmon fishing in Scotland today; Grimble and Calderwood; Andrew Carnegie, salmon angler?; The Scottish Gillie; Place names and a little Gaelic.