The Compleat Angler
Author | : Izaak Walton |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Fishing |
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Author | : Izaak Walton |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1863 |
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Author | : Robert Venables |
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Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1827 |
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Author | : Izaak Walton |
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Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 1823 |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1824 |
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Author | : Izaak Walton |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Release | : 1889 |
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Author | : Lawrence Weschler |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-03-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307833984 |
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
Author | : Arthur Rackham |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2005-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0486446859 |
A stunning treasury of 86 full-page plates span the famed English artist's career, from Rip Van Winkle (1905) to masterworks such as Undine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Wind in the Willows (1939).
Author | : James Prosek |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2010-11-16 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0061951579 |
James Prosek has been called "the Audubon of the fishing world" by the New York Times. A passionate fisherman and talented artist from a young age, he published two illustrated books on fish and fishing while still an undergraduate at Yale. After winning a traveling fellowship to follow in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler became his obsession. He was fascinated by Walton, a humble man who won the friendship of kings, and he was intrigued by the book's philosophies concerning the timelessness and immortality that could be achieved by fishing. Although Walton was sixty when The Compleat Angler was published and Prosek only twenty when he set off to visit England, they each had traits in common: a love of fishing and an extraordinary ability to make friends. This is the story of a young man's pilgrimage through England, fishing the waters that are now privately held. Along with wonderful stories about good times, great fishing, and fine eating, this trip becomes an exploration of Waltonian ideals: how to live with humor, wisdom, contentment, and simplicity. The original watercolors complementing the text are wonderful. Like Walton's book, The Complete Angler is not about fishing but about life. Or rather, it is about fishing—but fishing is life.
Author | : Marjorie Swann |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812203178 |
A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.