The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers by Izaak Walton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Reading Level: very good
The Compleat Angler is the most famous book ever published in the literature of sport. It is also a work whose unique celebration of the English countryside has attracted readers around the world since it first appeared in 1653. Izaak Walton issued the final version of his beloved book in 1676, accompan ...Show more
Hooked -The Story of the New Zealand Fishing Industry by David Johnson; Jenny Haworth
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Reading Level: very good
Hooked: the Story of the New Zealand Fishing Industry is the culmination of a lifetime's research into the industry - its pioneers, its personalities and its enormous value to the country. From the oyster cutters of the 1800s and mullet canneries of the early twentieth century, to the declaration of a 2 ...Show more
Trapped in Ice! - An Amazing True Whaling Adventure by Martin W. Sandler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this true story that reads as action-adventure, learn how 1,219 members of the world's largest whaling expedition managed to survive after becoming entrapped within an Arctic ice shelf. In the late summer of 1871, thirty-nine whaling ships traveled to the frigid Arctic waters in search of the prized ...Show more
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger Volume I - The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 by William Scoresby; C. Ian Jackson (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No12 | Reading Level: very good
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ...Show more
Tales from a Fisherman's Log by Zane Grey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Reading Level: very good
Zane Grey, known mainly for his Western fiction and for his own personal adventures exploring the rugged West, was also a prolific fisherman. Once his income from the Westerns gave him free time to explore the world's oceans, he devoted an average of 300 days a year to fishing, according to his son Lore ...Show more
The Fishing Diving Cruising Guide to The Bay of Islands by Steve Radich
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Reading Level: good-very good
Fishing, Diving, Cruising Guide to Bay of Islands
Saltwater Angling in New Zealand by R B Doogue
$12.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Series: New Zealand Holiday Guides Number Nine | Reading Level: good-very good
How to Catch a Fish by Kevin Ireland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Series: The Ginger Series | Reading Level: very good
This fine, funny, beautiful book should be on the shelf of every fisherman - and woman - and their long-suffering friends and family. If you think fishing is a simple matter of casting off from a river bank with rod and reel, or dropping a hook and line over the isde of a dinghy, you're in for a shock. ...Show more
Veiled Horizons - Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea by Ralph Bandini
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fishing | Series: Blue Water Classics | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1939 by The Derrydale Press, Veiled Horizons offers a collection of anecdotes of fishing for the giants of the sea as well as fish tales many would find difficult to swallow. Writing in the same style as Zane Grey's fishing stories, Ralph Bandini enthralls his readers with breath taki ...Show more