Tales of Swordfish and Tuna

by Zane Grey

Overview

Zane Grey fished up to 300 days of the year. But, with all that time on the water, there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really BIG fish—the giants of the sea. Blue fin tuna are (even today) still sometimes pursued with harpoons! There's the story of a swordfish that was hooked at 10:30 in the morning and played until 11:30 that night—only to...! Tales of Swordfish and Tuna will dazzle and thrill any fishing heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461661474
Publisher:	Derrydale Press
Publication date:	10/24/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872. He attended the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship where he became a dentist. However, his heart was not in dentistry, it was in writing. In 1905 he married Lina Roth. They had three children, and eventually moved to California where Zane could both experience the West and write about it. He was one of America's most prolific authors, writing almost 90 books. He died of heart failure in 1939.

Table of Contents

Illustrations vii

I Tuna at Avalon, 1919 3

II Giant Nova Scotia Tuna 15

III A Record Fight with a Swordfish 117

IV Xiphias Gladius 418 Pounds 135

V Wolves of the Sea 153

VI Whales' Tails 183

VII Herculean Angling 193

VIII Space 211

IX Heavy Tackle for Heavy Fish 235

X The Deadly Airplane-wire Leader 241

XI Loren Grey's First Fish Story 251

Editorial Reviews

Though he made his bread and butter by spinning yarns about the plains of the Old West, Grey's true passion was water. He had an almost fanatical love of fishing, spending as many as 300 days a year roaming the seas with a rod in his hand in pursuit of everything and anything that would swallow a hook. Published in 1953 and 1954, respectively, this duo contain some of Grey's best fishing stories culled from a lifetime of pursuing the leviathans of the deep (he liked to catch big fish). The stories are buttressed with numerous monochrome photos. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Tales of Swordfish and Tuna is a new collection of Grey's saltwater-fishing adventures. They are well worth reading for pleasure and instruction. Just as he invented the Western, Grey also pioneered sporting fishing for the large ocean species of game fish. Praise for Zane Grey on Fishing: "Zane Grey on Fishing offers some of the author's best writing: don't let this one get away!"—Library Journal "The book is a selection of some of Grey's best work, and the stories and excerpts reveal a man who understood that angling is more than an activity. It is a lifestyle."—Great Lakes Boating "What has virtually remained hidden behind his conventional formulalike books in the Western genre is that Grey's best writing came when he wrote about angling. Here he was free to blend his talent for narrative and sense of humour. " —Atlantic Salmon Journal "Of course, the big daddy of far-flung fishing is Zane Grey. This is an excellent...reader for those who may want to dip into his truly fabulous fishing life. —Gray's Sporting Journal

E. W. Smethurst Jr.