Notes on Fishing was Sergei Aksakov's first book and Russia's first angling treatise. It presents a Russian gentleman's observations on the fishing tackle, angling techniques, and fish species he came to know during five decades of adventure-filled fishing in the vast Russian steppe and the environs of Moscow. But it is goes beyond a mere discourse on angling, offering philosophical, literary, linguistic, ethnographic, biological, and conservationist observations. Aksakov has imbued his notes with a deep fondness for the land and an expertly conveyed atmosphere of personal and national nostalgia.
- ISBN10 081011366X
- ISBN13 9780810113664
- Publish Date 9 July 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Edition Translated ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 264
- Language English