The Compleat Angler

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and
verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly, but in the use of the live
worm, the grasshopper and the frog "Piscator" could speak as a master. There were
originally only two interlocutors in the opening scene, "Piscator" and "Viator"; but in
the second edition, as if in answer to an objection that "Piscator" had it too much in
his own way in praise of angling, he introduced the falconer, "Auceps," changed
"Viator" into "Venator" and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his

favourite sport. (Summary based on Wikipedia)

Total running time: 5:59:31
Read by Nicole Lee

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Cover art: "Izaak Walton and his scholar" (1900) by Louis John Rhead (1857-1926).

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Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler