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The old man and the sand eel : Will Millard. My grandad, fishing and my quest to find Britain's lost wild waterways /

By: Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2019Description: 322 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780241977705 : (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 799.12092 23
Contents:
The greater sand eel -- The striped assassin -- The water wolf -- A never-ending golden sun -- The fish everyone hates -- The great game -- Coming home
Summary: Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his grandad on a riverbank, catching fish. As he grew older, a distance grew between him, his grandfather and the rivers of his home. Then one day a record-breaking sand eel slipped through his fingers and he caught a glimpse of the magic he had lost. In The Old Man and the Sand Eel, Will seeks to rediscover what his late grandfather tried to teach him about fishing, rivers, nature and our precarious relationship with all three.
List(s) this item appears in: New acquisitions Nov - Dec 2019 | New acquisitions 2019 | Acquisitions 2019-2020
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Originally published: UK: Viking, 2018.

The greater sand eel -- The striped assassin -- The water wolf -- A never-ending golden sun -- The fish everyone hates -- The great game -- Coming home

Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his grandad on a riverbank, catching fish. As he grew older, a distance grew between him, his grandfather and the rivers of his home.
Then one day a record-breaking sand eel slipped through his fingers and he caught a glimpse of the magic he had lost. In The Old Man and the Sand Eel, Will seeks to rediscover what his late grandfather tried to teach him about fishing, rivers, nature and our precarious relationship with all three.

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