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The river Dove, with some quiet thoughts on the happy practice of angling

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Two companions and a hospitable host travel and fish along the Dove, visiting market towns, country halls, a fishing house, the river’s source, and Dove Dale; their conversations and walks provide pastoral description, practical angling observations, reminiscences of earlier practitioners, and quiet moral and devotional reflections on nature, leisure, and the virtues of the angler’s craft.

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Title: The river Dove, with some quiet thoughts on the happy practice of angling

Author: John Lavicount Anderdon

Release date: December 31, 2025 [eBook #77591]

Language: English

Original publication: London: William Pickering, 1847

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THE
RIVER DOVE
WITH SOME QUIET THOUGHTS ON THE HAPPY PRACTICE OF ANGLING

LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
1847