Fishing From The Earliest Times Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Fishing From the Earliest Times Despite Francis Bacon's dictum that "prefaces are great wastes of time, and, though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery," I hazard a few words as to this book, which, like Topsy, "growed, I 'spects," from a chance request for a quotation from Homer on Fishing with a Rod for my sister's game-book. It is, as far as I can discover, the first attempt to examine classical and other ancient writers on Fishing from the standpoint of one who has not only been a practical Pisciculturist for many years and an Angler all his life, but has also been taught (though somewhat forgotten) his Greek and Latin. If my work, in the main, is necessarily based on the compilations of others, it yet by serendipity (to adopt Horace Walpole's mintage) has unearthed some rare authors, who, judging from lack of mention, were unknown to previous writers on the subject. It contains also - if I may venture a "bravery" - several points which are apparently original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.