Compleat Angler

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Sports & Recreation

Authors: Izaak Walton In Year : 1653

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Compleat Angler

Dedication
Chapter 1 Part I - The First Day
Chapter 1 Part II - The First Day
Chapter 2 - The Second Day: On the Otter and the Chub
Chapter 3 - The Third Day: How to Fish for and to Dress the Chavender or Chub
Chapter 4 - The Third Day continued: On the Nature and Breeding of the Trout, and How to Fish for Him
Chapter 5 Part I - The Third Day continued: On the Trout
Chapter 5 Part II - The Third Day continued: On the Trout
Chapter 6 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Umber or Grayling
Chapter 7 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Salmon
Chapter 8 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Luce or Pike
Chapter 9 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Carp
Chapter 10 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Bream
Chapters 11-13 - The Fourth Day continued: On the Tench, the Perch and the Eel
Chapters 14 - The Fourth Day continued: Of the Barbel
Chapter 15 - The Fourth Day continued: Of the Gudgeon, the Ruffe and the Bleak
Chapter 16 - The Fourth Day continued: Is of Nothing, or of Nothing Worth
Chapter 17 - The Fifth Day continued: Of Roach and Dace
Chapter 18 - The Fifth Day continued: Of the Minnow or Penk; Loach, Bull-head or Miller's Thumb, and the Stickle-bag
Chapter 19 - The Fifth Day continued: Of Rivers, and Some Observations of Fish
Chapter 20 - The Fifth Day continued: Of Fish-Ponds
Chapter 21 - The Fifth Day continued

The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly, but in the use of the live worm, the grasshopper and the frog "Piscator" could speak as a master. There were originally only two interlocutors in the opening scene, "Piscator" and "Viator"; but in the second edition, as if in answer to an objection that "Piscator" had it too much in his own way in praise of angling, he introduced the falconer, "Auceps," changed "Viator" into "Venator" and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his favourite sport. (Summary by Wikipedia)