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Notes on Fishing (Srlt): And Selected Fishing Prose and Poetry (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) - Softcover
Notes on Fishing was Sergei Aksakov's first book and Russia's first angling treatise. It presents a Russian gentleman's observations on the fishing tackle, angling techniques, and fish species he came to know during five decades of adventure-filled fishing in the vast Russian steppe and the environs of Moscow. But it is goes beyond a mere discourse on angling, offering philosophical, literary, linguistic, ethnographic, biological, and conservationist observations. Aksakov has imbued his notes with a deep fondness for the land and an expertly conveyed atmosphere of personal and national nostalgia.
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"In Thomas Hodge's beautiful translation, Aksakov brings the same kind of urbanity and insight to rivers, fish, and fishing that Russia's great nineteenth-century novelists brought to her aristocracy, families, misfits, soldiers, and lovers. This book is a classic." --David James Duncan, author of The River Why and The Brothers K
"There can be no better introduction for American readers to a largely untapped store of nature writing than this translation of one of the central texts in Russia's response to its rich natural environment." --Andrew Durkin
"Notes on Fishing is a joyful gem of a book." --Nick Lyons
"There can be no better introduction for American readers to a largely untapped store of nature writing than this translation of one of the central texts in Russia's response to its rich natural environment." --Andrew Durkin
"Notes on Fishing is a joyful gem of a book." --Nick Lyons
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0810129248
- ISBN 13 9780810129245
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages280
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