Where the Bright Waters Meet by Harry Plunket Greene

[Nigel Rainton]

I found this in my local Oxfam shop this afternoon. It contains some fantastic old pictures and is very easy to read.



It even has a photo of CY !

[Skeff]

Well what a coincidence! I'm re-reading this at the moment and loving it! The chapter on the folly of stocking trout should still be compulsory reading for all fishery managers..... and the rest of the book is lovely, if rather poignant. I often look at the Bourne on the train to London and picture it in its heyday when H. P-G first discovered it. a great find SS - you have a treat in store beyond the photographs.... One of my favourite books.

[AshbyCut]

I say ... super photographs !!! One I shall be looking out for !!! ... but not a 1st edition until I will the lottery.

[Julian]

I noticed on Abebooks that first editions sell for around £160, but the recent editions, still hardback, for about £10 or even less.
Does the new version still have all the photos in it?

[Rutland Rod]

A lovely read, as well as a good angler he was a superb singer and loved his terriers, a cracking mix, in more modern times George Melly had similar claims as a 'one off' who sang albeit in a very different mode, only someone with a great love of fishing would sell some big name impressionist paintings to buy a stretch of the Usk.

Anyone who wants to know more about 'Good time George' should google him, I think youtube will have some of his 'cheer you up/feel good music'.

Tight lines Dave

[Nigel Rainton]

The book I found is a second edition, not the Medlar Press version. I haven't seen any other copies so I don't know if they also contain the same photos.

[Capebreton]

Love this book and sad to see in recent fly fishing and fly tying magazine that the Bourne is still under threat; in this instance the watercress farm on its banks, Watercress sounds benign but it is not. Great writer.

[Nigel Rainton]

Skeff,

Presumably this is the railway bridge that you pass over ? The first photo is the summer of 1900 and the second photo (colour) is recent.

[Carp Artist]

A lovely looking book and photo's will be keeping my eyes open for a copy of this.

[Skeff]

It is! Lovely and thanks for sharing....

The copy i have is The Flyfishers Classic Angling Library edition from 1992 - a lovely book but sadly without the photographs, apart from the one of the author himself... I can see I need to buy yet another book!