A lifelong angler and fish-breeder combs ancient writers for everything they say about fishing: Homer’s fishermen and their methods, the dolphin and the tunny, Theocritus and the Greek epigrammatists, the two Plinys and Martial, the first mention of a fly, and the fish taboos of Egypt.
Learned, discursive and often funny, a treat for fishermen with a classical bent. Download the free EPUB.