THE VIEW FROM RAT LAKE: ESSAYS ON THE SPORT OF FISHING. By John Gierach.

(1988) 1996 1st UK edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,193. Not illustrated. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

Dodging bears around Rat Lake in Montana, and expeditions to Henry's Fork, the South Platte and elsewhere. "The irrepressible author of Trout Bum and Fly Fishing the High Country, strikes again with more sage observations on life and fly fishing". A good read, as ever. "I'm sure Gierach can fly-fish better than most of us, but so what? The great thing is that he writes like no other living fishing author. If Alan Coren, Garrison Keillor and Peter Tinniswood fly-fished they might write something like this. It is a style that Britain has never been able to produce but which now we can relish and savour. No other fishing writer on my bookshelves has been re-read so often." (John Roberts).