Fishing and Thinking

by A.A. Luce

Book Overview

Born in 1882, the son of a Gloucestershire vicar, Luce was a Senior Fellow and Professor of Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. An avid angler for salmon, sea trout and brown trout in the streams, rivers and lakes of Ireland, Luce felt angling in general and fly-fishing in particular offered unique opportunities for undiluted thought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877424217
• ISBN13: 9780877424215
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Thinking ... but not only about fly fishing

Mr. Luce has done a fine job of extending the fishing metaphor into a study of life and classical philosophy.Don't let that description deter you from reading this fine book. It is accessible and thoughtful on so many levels that I frequently pick it up and open to a page at random just for the insight I can draw from that random passage.If Norman MacLean's father had put pen to paper (and if he was not as dogmatic as Norman MacLean paints him), this might have been his take on the world, fishing and morality.A great addition to any library.