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A Glorious Waste of Time by Jim Gibbinson |
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In this brand new title Jim Gibbinson takes the reader
to gravel pits, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, dykes,
beaches and estuaries. He discusses in depth his pursuit
of carp, tench, pike, trout, cod, bass and mullet. With
diversions for perch, chub, barbel and roach along the
way.
While this is not intended to be an instructional book,
there is practical angling advice in abundance.
We get a behind-the-scenes look at angling on
television, and an insight into what it is like to be a
well-known angling writer.
Jim writes with honesty, frankness and humour. At times
he is controversial, and his acerbic observations have
the capacity to embarrass, annoy or amuse - depending on
the reader's point of view!
The test of a good angling book is whether it makes the
reader want to get out there and go fishing.
"A Glorious Waste of Time"
does exactly that.
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From the book,
I am tempted to think that there is such a thing as a
fishing gene. Our bronzeage forebears had to fish, hunt,
farm or trade in order to survive, as did their
offspring, and theirs, and so on.
So could the need to fish have become an acquired
characteristic, hard-wired into our genetic make-up?
For that's what it is, a need, a fundamental
necessity for our emotional and mental well-being .
I was always going to be an angler, I had no choice in
the matter. I recall my maternal grandmother telling me
that as a three-year old, I liked nothing better than to
be taken in my pushchair to a jetty, that lay within a
few hundred yards of the flat where I lived in Thorpe
Bay.
There, apparently I would contentedly watch the flounder
fishermen for hours. . . |
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It is a limited edition of just 595 copies of which 25
are fully bound in leather.
All copies will be signed by the illustrator.
The full leather bindings are limited to 2 per customer
and are signed by both the author and illustrator.
"A Glorious Waste Of Time" is
illustrated throughout by Tom O'Reilly's ink drawings.
The full leather bound copies are hand crafted by Tom
O'Reilly in his studio in Cornwall.
Each book is bound
in Oasis goatskin leather with gold tooled front, back
boards and spine.
The books all have colours title labels, raised spine
bands, marker ribbons, head bands and are all supplied
with handmade slip cases.
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Full Leather Bound
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Cloth Bound with Dust-wrapper
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