Language English Pages 604 Country United States of America | Publication date 1864 Originally published 1864 Page count 604 Subjects Angling, Fly fishing | |
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Publisher E. H. Butler & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Similar Dry‑Fly Fishing in Theory a, Minor Tactics of the Chalk, A History of Fly Fishing for Trout, Blacker's Art of Fly Making, A Book on Angling | ||
The American Angler's Book Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish and the Art of Taking Them with Instructions in Fly-Fishing, Fly-Making, and Rod-Making and Directions for Fish-Breeding, to which is appended Dies Piscatoriae Describing Noted Fishing-Places, and The Pleasure of Solitary Fly-Fishing is an early American angling book by Thaddeus Norris (1811-1877) first published in 1864. Norris was known as Uncle Thad and commonly referred to in American angling history as "The American Walton".
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Synopsis
The American Angler's Book provides encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of fishing as practiced in North America in the mid-1800s. It covers tackle, techniques, target species and the best fishing locations. It has been credited with being the first significant American work to cover aspects of fly fishing.
Reviews
Shortly after its publication, the New York Times praised the work as encyclopedic and well illustrated on the subject of angling.
In his 1901 work My Angling Friends, pisciculturist Fred Mather wrote of Norris:
In a survey of the Reed Draper Angling Collection at Central Michigan University these comments were made on Norris's work in The American Angler's Book: