03-05-2008, 06:10 PM
Those of you who've ventured into the Anglers' Net forums from time to time will probably have noticed posts by somebody going under the name of Vagabond. His real name is Dave Park and to say that he's done a bit of fishing over the years would be like saying that Bill Gates has made a few quid. Dave started angling at 7 years old and is still as passionate about it nearly 70 years later as he was back then!
Vagabond's contributions to the forums over the years have always been warmly received, even if they do make people like myself slightly green with envy! I haven't read my copy of Angling Vagabond yet (I only received it a few hours ago!), but can't wait to devour it. I just know that I'll be grinning from ear-to-ear.
It would be irresponsible of me to recommend a book before I've even read it, but I've never been much of a responsible chap, so buy this book! I very much doubt that you'll regret it.
Expect reviews of Angling Vagabond on Anglers' Net very soon.
In closing, here's a bit about the book from the publisher's website:
Angling Vagabond - A Glorious BoyhoodEver since, as a seven-year-old, he espied some small brown fish in a brook, and then caught them, Dave Park has been a compulsive angler. Early parental opposition to his fishing simply made him even more determined to fish, as well as fostering his naturally rebellious tendencies.
Despite being at loggerheads with parents, schoolmasters, and authority in general, Dave finished up as an academic with two degrees and a university lecturing post in oceanography. He has fished all over the world, in six continents and all seven oceans, with several hundred different species of fish to show for it.
Angling was not his only interest either. One grandfather was a steam locomotive driver, the other a professional sea fisherman, and as Dave says, "salt and steam in the blood form a dangerous combination". Thus he became an oceanographer by profession, and drove steam locomotives as a pastime.
This is the story of Dave's escapades as a schoolboy and school-leaver during and just after World War Two. Eyebrows might be raised at his truancy, but always the truancy was in order to fish or to pursue one of his other interests - never for aimless mischief. Dave was to continue fishing throughout his working life, and is now retired, fishes as often as possible and spends a good part of the year fishing in faraway places around the globe.
You can buy Angling Vagabond from Amazon (click here to go straight to the page) or direct from www.trafford.com
Vagabond's contributions to the forums over the years have always been warmly received, even if they do make people like myself slightly green with envy! I haven't read my copy of Angling Vagabond yet (I only received it a few hours ago!), but can't wait to devour it. I just know that I'll be grinning from ear-to-ear.
It would be irresponsible of me to recommend a book before I've even read it, but I've never been much of a responsible chap, so buy this book! I very much doubt that you'll regret it.
Expect reviews of Angling Vagabond on Anglers' Net very soon.
In closing, here's a bit about the book from the publisher's website:
Angling Vagabond - A Glorious BoyhoodEver since, as a seven-year-old, he espied some small brown fish in a brook, and then caught them, Dave Park has been a compulsive angler. Early parental opposition to his fishing simply made him even more determined to fish, as well as fostering his naturally rebellious tendencies.
Despite being at loggerheads with parents, schoolmasters, and authority in general, Dave finished up as an academic with two degrees and a university lecturing post in oceanography. He has fished all over the world, in six continents and all seven oceans, with several hundred different species of fish to show for it.
Angling was not his only interest either. One grandfather was a steam locomotive driver, the other a professional sea fisherman, and as Dave says, "salt and steam in the blood form a dangerous combination". Thus he became an oceanographer by profession, and drove steam locomotives as a pastime.
This is the story of Dave's escapades as a schoolboy and school-leaver during and just after World War Two. Eyebrows might be raised at his truancy, but always the truancy was in order to fish or to pursue one of his other interests - never for aimless mischief. Dave was to continue fishing throughout his working life, and is now retired, fishes as often as possible and spends a good part of the year fishing in faraway places around the globe.
You can buy Angling Vagabond from Amazon (click here to go straight to the page) or direct from www.trafford.com