The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler is the most famous work in the literature of sport and a unique celebration of the English countryside. This new edition highlights its celebration of natural history, the environment, conservation, and the power of friendship.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Cotton, Charles / Swann, Marjorie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-874546-4
- EAN: 9780198745464
- Produktnummer: 18284964
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.7 cm 235 g
- Abbildungen: 10 black and white, 4 maps
- Gewicht: 235
Über den Autor
Izaak Walton (1593-1683) was born in Stafford. He was a biographer of the poet John Donne, and wrote lives of other notable Anglicans, including George Herbert and Richard Hooker. He was a Royalist, and during the Civil War participated in a royalist conspiracy after the battle of Worcester. In The Compleat Angler he expressed his political and religious allegiances while exploring humanity's relationship to the natural world. He is buried in WinchesterCathedral, where he is commemorated by a stained-glass window in the Fishermen's Chapel.Charles Cotton (1630-87) was a country gentleman, poet, and translator, who built a fishing house for himself and Walton at his birthplace, Beresford Hall in Staffordshire. In 1676, at Walton's invitation, he wrote the second part to The Compleat Angler.Marjorie Swann, editor, grew up fishing for perch and pike on St Joseph Island, Ontario. She subsequently earned degrees at Queen's University and Oxford. She is the author of Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England (2001) and is writing a book about Walton's Angler and its post-seventeenth-century afterlives.
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