The Accidental Angler

by Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Meet Charles Rangeley-Wilson, angler, conservationist, and traveler. In this broad look at fishing around the world, Rangeley-Wilson travels from city suburbs to Bhutan, from Icelandic moonscapes to the Seychelles—anywhere, in fact, his fishing rod leads. He battles titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash; he chases inscrutable grayling through back gardens in Provence and phantom sea trout. Along the way he discovers that fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. A fishing rod will break the ice with locals, guides, farmers, shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and barflies. Fishing introduces Rangeley-Wilson to crabby weather and crabbier locals, moon-phases, riptides, floods, droughts, remarkable tales, and of course fantastic slippery beasts.

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 24, 2006

Reviews

[Simon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe I just don’t like fishing books !

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very well written prosaic, philosophical even, where fishing becomes the vehicle for life observations, thoughts and musings, a little local history...oh and the search for trout, sometimes in very unlikely places.
Truly fishing literature, but a fishing book non the less.