Hooked:  Fly Fishing through Russia

by  MONTAIGNE, Fen.    ​   ID No.: 4169.   
AU$35.00

Weindenfeld and Nicolson  London, 1998, 8vo, 275pp. D/J.  A combination of social history, travel through Russia but mainly fly fishing. His journey in search of lenock, grayling, steelhead and the legendary taimen takes us from the gulags of Solovetsky Island to the gold mines of Kolyma and the tundra rivers.  Written by the Moscow correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Montaigne has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won an Overseas Press Club award for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inscription to previous owner by Marty R. –Fine/Very Fine