Fishing from the Earliest Times

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William Radcliffe

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION PART I

GREEK AND ROMAN FISHING. [122] CHAPTER I HOMER THE POSITION OF FISHERMEN

EGYPTIAN FISHING

ASSYRIAN FISHING [888] CHAPTER XXX NO ROD, ALTHOUGH CLOSE INTERCOURSE WITH EGYPT

JEWISH FISHING [997] CHAPTER XXXVIII ROD NOT EMPLOYED IN SPITE

CHINESE FISHING

INDEX

Title: Fishing from the Earliest Times

Author: William Radcliffe

Language: English

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FISHING FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES

THE FISH-AVATAR OF VISHNU,
WITH SCENES ILLUSTRATING THE LIFE OF KRISHNA.

FISHING FROM THE
EARLIEST TIMES

BY

WILLIAM RADCLIFFE

SOMETIME OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

THE OLDEST REPRESENTATION (BUT ONE) OF ANGLING,
c. 1400 B.C.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1921

All rights reserved

TO
MY FISHING HOSTS AND FISHING FRIENDS
IN AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, AMERICA,
THE WEST INDIES, AND EUROPE.

UPON THEM, UPON ME MAY THE GODS BESTOW
THE BOON CRAVED BY MR. ANDREW LANG!

“Within the streams, Pausanias saith, That down Cocytus valley flow, Girdling the grey domain of Death, The spectral fishes come and go; The ghosts of trout fly to and fro, Persephone, fulfil my wish, And grant that in the shades below My ghost may land the ghosts of fish!”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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