- Publisher: Unbound
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 160pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 177x110mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781783529605
- Product code: 540687
Golden Scales
A Lost Summer on the Banks
Chris Yates New Paperback Illustrated
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The angler Chris Yates, known for his TV and radio appearances, reflects on the summer of 1981 when, having recently caught the largest British carp to date, he spent many hours at Redmire Pool in pursuit of an even larger specimen, ‘the King’. His account is also a broader meditation on our relationship with nature and the mysteries of the water.
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In 1981, when he was thirty-three and had just caught what was then the largest British carp, Chris Yates wondered if he could now dream of capturing Redmire's Pool's real monster: the King.
But far from the King itself, it was the idea of such a leviathan that hooked Chris that summer, playing him along the banks for one final season before releasing him back into the world. Chris's account of those pivotal months - originally published as The Lost Diary - recounts the final reckoning of an angler's long relationship with a beloved and mysterious pool.
It is also a magical record of both familiar and freshly discovered waters, meetings with new friends, and unexpected encounters with creatures other than fish and presences that are not quite human.
But far from the King itself, it was the idea of such a leviathan that hooked Chris that summer, playing him along the banks for one final season before releasing him back into the world. Chris's account of those pivotal months - originally published as The Lost Diary - recounts the final reckoning of an angler's long relationship with a beloved and mysterious pool.
It is also a magical record of both familiar and freshly discovered waters, meetings with new friends, and unexpected encounters with creatures other than fish and presences that are not quite human.
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The angler Chris Yates, known for his TV and radio appearances, reflects on the summer of 1981 when, having recently caught the largest British carp to date, he spent many hours at Redmire Pool in pursuit of an even larger specimen, ‘the King’. His account is also a broader meditation on our relationship with nature and the mysteries of the water.
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