CONWAY, Capt. C.C.W.S. Sunlit Waters. An Introduction to The Art of Fishing with Light Tackle.

CONWAY, Capt. C.C.W.S. Sunlit Waters. An Introduction to The Art of Fishing with Light Tackle.CONWAY, Capt. C. C. W. S. Sunlit Waters. An Introduction to The Art of Fishing with Light Tackle. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd. [June 1943]. 4to. Publisher's cloth backed boards, colour illustrated dust wrappers (the variant with the smaller typeface), not price clipped; pp. [xiii], 161, [3], with a colour photographic frontispiece of a fisherman in a pith helmet, casting into a fast running river, 12 other photographic plates (two in colour), and

CONWAY, Capt. C.C.W.S. Sunlit Waters. An Introduction to The Art of Fishing with Light Tackle. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd. [June 1943].

4to. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, colour illustrated dust-wrappers (the variant with the smaller typeface), not price-clipped; pp. [xiii], 161, [3], with a colour-photographic frontispiece of a fisherman in a pith-helmet, casting into a fast-running river, 12 other photographic plates (two in colour), and copious diagrams of tackle and locations throughout; wrappers a little darkened and with a few marginal tears, light offsetting from endpapers, internally very clean and fresh, making this a rare survival of a colonial fishing guide, beautifully produced during the Second World War.

Third impression. This is a practical guide to fishing in India, published, "in these hard times when money is scarce". Captain Conway continues: "I have set out to make the fisherman who will use the tackle described as self-dependent as possible, and I even claim that he can set himself up for a modest sixty rupees … " (Preface).

See Elliott, Field Sports in India, London, 1973, pp. 171-182.

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