THE RAPTURE OF THE RIVER:

258 pages, [81 pages of plates]: illustrations (chiefly portraits, 1 as frontispiece). Skivertex, dust wrapper, frayed and rubbed along spine & edges with a small chip to lower edge, but unusually present.

Based on Hey's carefully kept fishing diaries. "If you only ever collect one [fishing] book, let it be RAPTURE OF THE RIVER. There will never be another that sums up the soul of South African fly fishing as brilliantly". Curtis. FISHING THE MARGINS, p. 113.