The Old Man and the Sand Eel

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The publisher is grateful for permission to quote from: Fishing for a Year by Jack Hargreaves (Medlar Press 2011), reproduced by kind permission of Jack Hargreaves’s stepson Simon Baddeley, owner of rights in all Jack Hargreaves’s ‘Out of Town’ films for Southern Television; John Wilson’s Fishing Encyclopaedia (Boxtree 1995), reproduced by permission of Pan Macmillan; The Secret Carp by Chris Yates (Merlin Unwin Books 2000), reproduced by permission of Merlin Unwin Books; Blood Knots by Luke Jennings (Atlantic Books 2010), reproduced by permission of Sky Horse Publishing, Inc and Atlantic Books Ltd; The Book of Eels by Tom Fort (HarperCollins 2002), reproduced by permission of HarperCollins Ltd; Somewhere Down the Crazy River by Paul Boote and Jeremy Wade (Hodder and Stoughton 1994), reproduced by kind permission of Jeremy Wade; A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (HarperCollins 1991), reproduced by permission of HarperCollins Ltd; ‘Pike’ from Lupercal by Ted Hughes (Faber and Faber 1960), reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd; A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (University of Chicago Press 1989), reproduced by permission of University of Chicago Press; Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life by Jeremy Paxman (Penguin 1995), reproduced by permission of David Higham Associates.

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ISBN: 978-0-241-97769-9