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Special offer. Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton: The Compleat Angler (Unabridged)

Read by Derek Jacobi, Sean Barrett, David Timson and cast

Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton: The Compleat Angler (Unabridged)
Escape an uncertain world by listening to David Timson and a talented cast brilliantly recreate the fishing classic The Compleat Angler, published in 1653. This has to be one of the best audiobooks...

The Times, 15th July 2017

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Special offer. Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton: The Compleat Angler (Unabridged)

Read by Derek Jacobi, Sean Barrett, David Timson and cast

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Escape an uncertain world by listening to David Timson and a talented cast brilliantly recreate the fishing classic The Compleat Angler, published in 1653. This has to be one of the best audiobooks...

The Times, 15th July 2017

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‘As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.’ Isaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler, long considered the bible of fishing, is a joyful celebration of the English countryside and the relaxed and reflective lifestyle of the devoted fisherman. Through dialogue between teacher and student, the book sheds a unique light on fishing, baiting and cooking, including an original recipe for trout. Its music, rhymes, poetry, and humour are all brought to life by a full cast. As winding as a quiet brook and as bountiful as a bursting riverbank, The Compleat Angler is essential listening for any outdoors enthusiast.

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Charles Cotton: The Compleat Angler (Unabridged)
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The Compleat Angler
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): To all Readers of this discourse…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Part 1: The First Day. Chapter 1
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Thus freely speaks Montaigne concerning Cats…
Track length7:10
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Hunting is a game for princes and noble persons…
Track length7:27
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): But, Gentlemen, I have almost lost myself…
Track length6:26
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Sir, I am now become so full of expectation…
Track length5:33
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And an ingenious Spaniard says…
Track length5:45
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Lord! who hath praise enough…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): On the contrary, what shall I say…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): I might here enlarge myself, by telling you…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink…
Track length5:46
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The Second Day. Chapter 2
Track length5:53
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The Third Day
Track length5:17
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Oh, Sir! a Chub is the worst fish that swims…
Track length4:33
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 3: How to fish for, and to dress…
Track length5:26
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Look you, master, what I have done…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 4: Observations on the Nature…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And so much for these Fordidge Trouts…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And now you shall see me try my skill…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Come live with me, and be my love…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 5: On the Trout
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Well sung, Coridon, this song was sung…
Track length5:16
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Good-morrow, good hostess, I see my brother…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And now, I shall shew you how to bait your hook…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And, yet, I will exercise your promised patience…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Come, come, my scholar, you see the river…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): What say you, scholar, to the providence…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): I confess, no direction can be given…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright…
Track length6:56
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): When I had ended this composure…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): I thank you, good master, for this piece…
Track length3:55
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Well, scholar, now that we are sate down…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 6: The Umber or Grayling
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 7: The Salmon
Track length6:23
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And you are yet to observe further…
Track length6:42
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 8: On the Luce or Pike
Track length6:52
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): I might say more of this, but it might be thought…
Track length6:31
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): By flesh-frogs, I mean frogs that breed and live…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And for your dead-bait for a Pike: for that…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 9: On the Carp
Track length5:27
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And a person of honour, now living…
Track length4:40
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): But you are to remember that I have told you…
Track length5:45
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 10: On the Bream
Track length6:34
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Thus you having found and fitted for the place…
Track length6:30
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 11: On the Tench
Track length3:59
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 12: On the Perch
Track length8:17
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 13: Of the Eel, and other Fish…
Track length6:50
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And this eel, of which I have said so much…
Track length8:13
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 14: Of the Barbel
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 15: Of the Gudgeon, the Ruffe…
Track length4:46
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 16: Is of nothing, or of nothing…
Track length7:09
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): These, and many other field flowers…
Track length6:15
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The Fifth Day
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 17: Of Roach and Dace
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): And after this manner you may also keep…
Track length6:23
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): You may make another choice bait thus…
Track length6:31
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 18: Of the Minnow, or Penk…
Track length7:13
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 19: Of Rivers…
Track length7:24
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 20: Of Fish-Ponds
Track length6:44
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 21: Directions on how to make…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Well, Scholar, having now taught you…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): I knew a man that had health and riches…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Well, Master, I thank you…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Trust me, Scholar, I thank you heartily…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The Compleat Angler. Part Two
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Sir, you invite me to my own advantage…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): You speak like a true friend; and, in doing so…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 2: So, sir, now we have got to...
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Pardon me, sir, for tempting you…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): You are pleasant, and I am glad to see you so…
Track length6:39
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The Second Day. Chapter 3
Track length7:28
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 4. Why then, sir, to begin…
Track length1:32
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 5: Of Fly-Fishing
Track length4:37
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The length of your line, to a man that knows…
Track length4:10
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): In making a fly, then, which is not a hackle…
Track length5:09
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 6. Boy! come…
Track length6:53
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Look you, sir, here is a fine stream now…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 7. Come, Sir!
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): 8. We also have this month a Dark Brown…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): I have so great a deference to your judgment…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Of these, the Green-drake never discloses…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 8. So, sir, I am now ready…
Track length6:55
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): 10. And another little Black Gnat…
Track length7:23
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The Third Day. Chapter 9
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 10. Oh, sir, are you returned?
Track length4:40
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 11. So, sir, now we are here…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): The second way of angling at the bottom…
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The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): Chapter 12. Angling in the middle, then…
Track length6:38
The Compleat Angler (Unabridged): To My Most Honoured Friend, Charles Cotton…
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The Compleat Angler by Isaac Walton…
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15th July 2017

Escape an uncertain world by listening to David Timson and a talented cast brilliantly recreate the fishing classic The Compleat Angler, published in 1653. This has to be one of the best audiobooks so far.
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