Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Old Man and the Sand Eel, The
Author: MILLARD WILL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 27/07/2017
Imprint: VIKING
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank wiling away the daycatching fish. As he grew older and his competitive urge to catch more and bigger fish led him away from that natural connection between him, his grandfather and the rivers of his home and into large commercial fisheries catching fish after fish. Until the fateful day he let a record breaking sand eel slipthrough his fingers and he knew that he had lost the magic of those days down by the river and that something had to change. Armed with his late grandfather’swell-thumbed fishing encyclopaedia Will set out on a quest to get back to his roots and catch some our great forgotten fish species, hidden deep of our lost waterways. The Old Man and The Sand Eel is at its heart the story of three generations of men trying to figure out what it is to be a man, a father and a fisherman. It plots Will’s scaly stepping stones back to his childhood innocence and late granddad, a return to the importance of understanding the truly feral through a child’s eyes, when anything was possible and the wild was everywhere.
ISBN: 9780241270011
Weight: 567g
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 336