The Complete Angler by Walton, Izaak, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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The Complete Angler by Walton, Izaak, Brand New, Free shipping in the US. The Complete Angler by Walton, Izaak, ISBN 1723492566, ISBN-13 9781723492563, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Walton was born in Stafford and moved to London when he was in his teens in order to learn a trade. The Compleat Angler reflects the author´s connections with these two locations. Th was dedicated to John Offley of Madeley, Staffordshire, and there are references in it to fishing in the English Midlands. However, the work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip to the Lea Valley in was not sympathetic to the Puritan regime of the 1650s and the work has been seen as a reaction to the turbulence of the English Civil War and its aftermath; "the disorder of the present times received muted comment in the work's scenes of harmony", is the view of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
