The Far from Compleat Angler cull Jim Corbett was the local

Jim Corbett was the local hero of northern India in the 1920s and 30s when he tracked down the man-eating tigers and leopards which had killed hundreds of poor villagers

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Tom Fort always manages in his stylish and witty way to pinpoint something important with which all anglers can identify

The Far from Compleat Angler cull Jim Corbett was the localTom Fort, former angling correspondent for the Financial Times, is one of the most incisive and funny fishing writers in Britain today. This sparkling collection of his writings finds Tom at Ceausescu's bear hunting lodge in Romania, at a fishing auction in the Home Counties, being thwarted by a bunch of hard mouthed Brazilian dourado, on a press freebie in Scotland and in a terrible state on the Kennet not to mention conducting a fantasy celebrity