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Extract from A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Noman MacLean, published by University of Chicago Press (1976); extract from How I Came to Know Fish by Oto Pavel (1960), reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd; US: © Ota Pavel c/o DILIA, 1974; ‘Fishing’ from The Death of the Moth and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf. Copyright 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright renewed 1970 by Marjorie T. Parsons, Executrix. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved; extract from For Love & Money by Jonathan Raban. Copyright © 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 by Jonathan Raban. Copyright © 1987, 1989 by Foreign Land Ltd. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers (US); Reprinted by permission of Eland Publishing Ltd © Jonathan Raban 1987 (UK). ‘On Tackle Shops’ from Rod and Line by Arthur Ransome, published by Jonathan Cape, 1929; Coming Up for Air by George Orwell (Copyright © George Orwell, 1939). Reproduced by permission of Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell. Copyright © 1950 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, renewed 1978 by Sonia Brownell Orwell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved (US); extract from Fishing and Thinking by A. A. Luce, published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1959; extract from Highland River by Neil M. Gunn, 1937, published by Canongate. Reproduced by permission of Dairmid Gunn, nephew of the author and executor of his literary estate. ‘King Bait’ from Te Kaihau: the Windeater, copyright © 1988 by Keri Hulme. Reproduced by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; extract from Notes on Fishing by Sergei Timofeevich. Translated by Thomas Hodge. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, Copyright © 1997. All rights reserved. Acknowledgements: Some parts of the introduction first appeared in the London Review of Books. The author is grateful to the editors for permission to reproduce them here. 172
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Extract from A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Noman MacLean, published by University of Chicago Press (1976); extract from How I Came to Know Fish by Oto Pavel (1960), reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd; US: © Ota Pavel c/o DILIA, 1974; ‘Fishing’ from The Death of the Moth and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf. Copyright 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright renewed 1970 by Marjorie T. Parsons, Executrix. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved; extract from For Love & Money by Jonathan Raban. Copyright © 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 by Jonathan Raban. Copyright © 1987, 1989 by Foreign Land Ltd. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers (US); Reprinted by permission of Eland Publishing Ltd © Jonathan Raban 1987 (UK). ‘On Tackle Shops’ from Rod and Line by Arthur Ransome, published by Jonathan Cape, 1929; Coming Up for Air by George Orwell (Copyright © George Orwell, 1939). Reproduced by permission of Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell. Copyright © 1950 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, renewed 1978 by Sonia Brownell Orwell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved (US); extract from Fishing and Thinking by A. A. Luce, published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1959; extract from Highland River by Neil M. Gunn, 1937, published by Canongate. Reproduced by permission of Dairmid Gunn, nephew of the author and executor of his literary estate. ‘King Bait’ from Te Kaihau: the Windeater, copyright © 1988 by Keri Hulme. Reproduced by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; extract from Notes on Fishing by Sergei Timofeevich. Translated by Thomas Hodge. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, Copyright © 1997. All rights reserved.

Acknowledgements: Some parts of the introduction first appeared in the London Review of Books. The author is grateful to the editors for permission to reproduce them here.

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