Tales of the Angler's Eldorado: New Zeland

by Zane Grey

Book Overview

In Tales of the Angler's Eldorado, Grey fishes New Zeland's legenday streams.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586670298
• ISBN13: 9781586670290
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Derrydale Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

New Zealand Fishing

I have been a Zane Grey fan for more than 40 years, and in just this year have I decided to purchase his "fishing" books. I always knew they would be good and well worth reading, even though I am not a fisherman at all. Yet it is Zane Grey, and the "fishing" books read like his other work--full of magnificent description of flora and fauna, and with plenty of action and adventure to keep one interested. This book is also filled with plenty of pictures and illustrations to keep you informed as you read the text. Zane Grey loved being the first at anything; going where no one had gone before; and through his writing we can go along with him as he battles gigantic swordfish, striped marlin, or fly fish for trout in the mountain streams of New Zealand. It did not matter what fish Zane Grey was catching, as it was the catching which was important to him. If you are in to fishing, or would just love to read about adventure and travel then this book is for you.

The ultimate in Big-Game Fishing.

This book is an amazing tale of fishing in the "good old days" when wealthy or titled sportsmen roamed the world seeking trophies for their castle walls. By today's standards , Zane Grey is a one man walking ecological disaster, but he balances this by the sheer love of nature of a true hunter that comes across in his writing. The fishing, the sea, the sunsets, the birds, the islands and the bush on them, are all described lyrically. Zane lives the dream of every fisherman, to have the wealth and the time to travel to exotic places and catch world record game fish. This book is about several trips to the virgin fishing grounds of New Zealand from 1925-1932, in which he pioneered big-game fishing there. Where dozens of swordfish, marlins and sharks are seen around the boat most days and acres of bait-fish seethe on the surface. Where sportsmanship was the measure of the day, and hooking a marlin that leapt fifty times up to twenty feet out of the water and got away, was a better days fun than landing ten that don't perform. A great read but sad also, as you realise that those days are gone forever, and that the sheer success and excess of fishing parties such as these, helped end them. This book is not particularly well written; too much happens for it to hang together as a story. But as a series of accounts of the grand old days of fishing, it is a must for any enthusiast's library.