The Accidental Angler

Oct 4, 2024 9:25 AM

Author:Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will introduce you to crabby weather and crabbier locals, moon-phases, rip-tides, floods, droughts, remarkable tales, and of course fantastic slippery beasts.

In The Accidental Angler you'll battle titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make-believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash. You'll chase inscrutable grayling through back gardens in Provence, or phantom sea trout in downtown Southampton. And you'll dance in Brazilian carvinals and find secret rivers hidden beneath the streets.

Join Charles Rangeley-Wilson - angler, conservationist, television presenter and traveller - for the trip of a lifetime, on a journey that will make the familiar new, and the strange familiar.

Reviews

Whether battling titantic monsters on a tropical atoll or chasing phantom sea-trout in Southampton, Rangeley-Wilson attains cultural and sociological insights into all manner of people and places.

—— The Field

Charles Rangeley-Wilson ... is fishing's high-priest. To the common passion for the pastime, he adds an exceptional ability to write well...And he has an acerbic eye

—— Ross Leckie , The Times

He has a good eye for river landscapes and for the otherworldly movements of fish... There's a charm in this woozy prose, which has a knack for snagging interesting turns of phrase

—— James Purdon , Observer

Thrilling, made me writhe with envy

—— Sunday Telegraph

His obsession becomes ours... Compellingly written

—— Daily Mail

Rangeley-Wilson is widely held to be one of the best angling wirters in the country... Adventurous, entertaining and at times bizarre, these stories encompass a vast range of places, people and fish and are enormous fun. The ideal gift for any angler

—— Good Book Guide

One of the absolute classics of mountaineering...a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion'

—— George Steiner , Sunday Times

Certainly the best value of any book out there at the minute as well as being comfortably among the best . . . probably the best boxing book since Kevin Mitchell's War, Baby

—— Sunday Tribune

A born storyteller, [Kimball] throws in enough yarns and anecdotes to fill three or four books

—— Sunday Business Post

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