FISHINGS STRANGEST TALES (PB)

This book is full of fascinating tales that may sound fishy and unbelievable but will have you caught hook, line and sinker. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Or the nine-year-old boy fishing for trout who caught a large mussel – containing no less than forty pearls – and managed to earn more in one day than his father, a farm worker, had earned in the last five years.