Zane Grey, known mainly for his Western fiction and for his own personal adventures exploring the rugged West, was also a prolific fisherman. Once his income from the Westerns gave him free time to explore the world's oceans, he devoted an average of 300 days a year to fishing, according to his son Loren. Besides the waters of southern California, Florida, and Nova Scotia, he went deep-sea fishing off the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti, with many return trips to his favorite spots. He pioneered the fishing of ...
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Zane Grey, known mainly for his Western fiction and for his own personal adventures exploring the rugged West, was also a prolific fisherman. Once his income from the Westerns gave him free time to explore the world's oceans, he devoted an average of 300 days a year to fishing, according to his son Loren. Besides the waters of southern California, Florida, and Nova Scotia, he went deep-sea fishing off the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti, with many return trips to his favorite spots. He pioneered the fishing of sailfish, and he established numerous world records along the way. He wrote many articles for international sporting magazines highlighting the uniqueness of New Zealand fishing, among other places. Tales from a Fisherman's Log includes notes Zane Grey made while in the midst of exploring his favorite pastime.
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Reader copy. Ex library hardback with DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1979 by Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland. Light shelf wear & minor fading to DJ otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-6F*
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Very good. All orders ship by next business day! This is a used hardcover book. Pages have no markings and has some wear. Dust jacket is included and has wear and small tears. The cover/boards have wear. For USED books, we cannot guarantee supplemental materials such as CDs, DVDs, access codes and other materials. We are a small company and very thankful for your business!
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Hardcover. NOT Ex-library. Good condition. Minor shelfwear to dust jacket. Clean pages and tight binding. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
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117p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Edges minutely rubbed and sunned. Inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. Dustjacket is mildly edgeworn, but otherwise fully intact. Excerpts from a diary kept by Zane Grey, the Western novel writer, during a trip to New Zealand in 1927.
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VG. First Thus. Like New. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. Dust jacket bright and shiny with light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.
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Used-G. Shelf wear on cover and/or edges. This book has minor wear and is in very good condition. Help support Orca Books Cooperative--Olympia's only Co-op Bookstore!
As with any Zane Grey outdoor book, this one if filled with photographs and indepth detail on how to fish. Zane Grey never minced words when it came to expressing his ideas on that subject. In this book you will find all of the excitement and sadness that one experiences when fishing in the ocean for marlin or in a river for trout depending on whether you successfully land your fish or not. There are also the grand descriptions of the country for which Zane Grey is noted. He is the master when it comes to making you feel you are right there. This book is well worth the price and well worth reading.