TRUE TALES FROM AN EXPERT FISHERMAN: A MEMOIR OF MY LIFE WITH ROD AND REEL. By John Bailey.

(2001) 2018 revised edition. 8vo (152 x 229mm). Ppviii,216. Colour photographs throughout, monochrome illustrations.

This is a revised and re-titled new edition of Trout at Ten Thousand Feet (New Holland, 2001) now illustrated with good colour photographs throughout. A good read from this prolific author. "True Tales from an Expert Fisherman is a hugely entertaining and well-illustrated collection of stories by an internationally renowned angler about his love of fish. John Bailey shares his horrifying brushes with espionage and death in the world's most remote and inhospitable places, and introduces readers along the way to a motley array of characters, as well as an immense variety of fish! Written with great energy, enthusiasm, and respect for the wild, True Tales from an Expert Fisherman is a singular record of one man's lifelong passion for fishing." Chapters include:- Prologue - a return to altitude; John the Fish; Fishing the flowing road; Arctic lightning; Song of the sturgeon; Mongolian odyssey; Trout at ten thousand feet; The turning of the tide; Icon fish; The never-ending dream; Epilogue - going home.