That Strange Alchemy
Laurence Catlow author Rod Calbrade illustrator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Merlin Unwin Books
Published:10th Sep '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
“I need to start thinking like a shooter, for shooters and fishers, even though they are often the same person, think very differently.”
So writes author Laurence Catlow as his fishing season on the lonely northern rivers comes to an end, and he prepares for his next shooting season on his own small shoot on the edge of the Pennines.
Many sportsmen enjoy both shooting and fishing, and in That Strange Alchemy, Catlow examines
• fishing and shooting memories and why they differ
• why both sports are so important to him
• the loss of his shooting dog and the undertaking of a new one
• best fishing days and how these differ from best shooting days
• the anxieties of running a guest shooting day
• fishing in middle age compared to in youth
Catlow writes with great wit, modesty and insight.
A celebration of all that is wonderful about our treasured sporting pastimes, and a perfect gift for the shooting man or woman in your life. If you need a book to warm the soul, then look no further.
* Shooting Gazette *Readers of a similar age may nod their heads in agreement when Catlow reflects upon life. Anyone who shoots will understand his anxiety when hosting a guest day; anyone who fishes will revel in his accounts of catching trout amid great hatches of blue-winged olives.
* Trout and Salmon magazine *His ability to recall with warmth the events down to the last detail and to describe then, and his sporting ethos, in such an absorbing way mark him out as one of the finest sporting writers alive. This is vintage Catlow.
* Shooting TimISBN: 9781906122034
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 744g
304 pages