Paperback. Green with fishing reel picture and title on front cover. Child’s message on the inside of front cover!

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Rod and Line is a noted book on fishing first published in 1929 (and re-issued many times since) by the famous author Arthur Ransome. It is a collection of fifty columns he contributed to the Manchester Guardian over the years 1924 to 1928. It is noted as being one of the most significant contributions to English fishing literature. Indeed Mortimer and Whitehouse (2019) regard it as providing “some of the best writing on fishing”.  And Coopey (2010) argues the Ransome, in Rod and Line “produced one of the most evocative and rich texts in the English language”.

Granada television produced a series in 1982 starring Michael Hordern in which he read the text over films of his fishing.

There is a recording, perhaps the only one of Ransome’s voice, reading from Rod and Line that was broadcast in 1948 on the BBC Third Programme.

Arthur Michell Ransome CBE (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The books remain popular and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.

He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected of being a Soviet spy by MI5.