| The Complete Angler Contributor(s): Walton, Izaak (Author) |
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ISBN: 1723492566 ISBN-13: 9781723492563 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.94 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Fishing - Sports & Recreation | Reference - Sports & Recreation | History |
| Dewey: 799.1 |
| Lexile Measure: 1210 |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.19 lbs) 56 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walton was born in Stafford and moved to London when he was in his teens in order to learn a trade. The Compleat Angler reflects the author s connections with these two locations. The book was dedicated to John Offley of Madeley, Staffordshire, and there are references in it to fishing in the English Midlands. However, the work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip to the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire. Walton was not sympathetic to the Puritan regime of the 1650s and the work has been seen as a reaction to the turbulence of the English Civil War and its aftermath; "the disorder of the present times received muted comment in the work's scenes of harmony", is the view of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |