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$125.00 U.S. Postpaid
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An Angler's Autobiography
By F.M. Halford
With a new preface by John Halford
This is a fine new reprint edition of the original 1903 volume which is
by far the rarest and most difficult of Frederic M. Halford's titles to
obtain. This new British edition includes a new preface by the author's
great grandson along with previously unpublished manuscript pages and
photographs.
Like all good autobiographies, this is personal and insightful,
describing a lifelong passion for fishing, including, oddly, some
experimentation with salt water fly fishing in the 1860's. But above all
else, Halford is the master of the dry fly - an obsession perhaps - and
what develops in these pages is a remarkable portrait of the great
Victorian angling authority. In many ways, the technical aspects of
Halford's work are daunting and tedious; but here, you meet a much
different man, a much different voice, and you find yourself actually
starting to warm up to him overlooking his occasional imperiousness.
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