or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation
Izaak Walton, one of the earliest English biographers, is best
remembered as the author of The Compleat Angler. In 1676 Walton
asked a young follower, the poet Charles Cotton, to furnish a
supplement on fly-fishing for the fifth edition of the book, a
project that the two pursued at a cottage on the banks of the Dove
River in Derbyshire.
Charles Cotton(1630-1687) was a country gentleman, poet, and
translator, who built a fishing house for himself and Izaak Walton
at his birthplace, Beresford Hall in Staffordshire. In 1676, at
Walton's invitation, he wrote the second part toThe Compleat
Angler.
Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raineswas executive editor of
The New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and
My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1992.
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