“Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.“Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.”The son of an alehouse keeper, Sir Isaak Walton published “The Compleat Angler - The Contemplative Man’s Recreation” in 1653. The famous celebration of the English countryside tells the story of a hunter , a fowler and a fisherman. Walton’s cottage in Shallowford near Stone, Staffordshire, is now a museum.

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