The Lightning Thread av David Profumo

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From award winning novelist and journalist David Profumo comes a dazzling work about the restorative power of nature and finding joy in simple pleasures. <BR/><BR/>'David Profumo has fished everywhere man and boy, and come back with his creel crammed with adventures and misadventures - a memoir for every fisherman’s bookshelf.' <B>Tom Stoppard</B><BR/> <BR/> It is often said there is more to the experience of fishing than the mere catching of fish, and in this evocative, wide-ranging memoir he explores the delights and mysteries of one of mankind’s most ancient pursuits.<BR/> <BR/> As we move from the Highland waters of his childhood and into his adult travels from the Arctic Circle to the South Seas, <I>The Lightning Thread</I> unpeels this idiosyncratic subject, and shows how it embraces folklore, poetry, magic, drink and disaster.<BR/> <BR/> By turns a lyrical celebration of the natural world and also the quirkiness of human natur