The Compleat Angler
unabridged
‘As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.’ Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler , long considered the bible of fishing, is a joyful celebration of the English countryside and the relaxed and reflective lifestyle of the devoted fisherman. Through dialogue between teacher and student, the book sheds a unique light on fishing, baiting and cooking, including an original recipe for trout. Its music, rhymes, poetry, and humour are all brought to life by a full cast. As winding as a quiet brook and as bountiful as a bursting riverbank, The Compleat Angler is essential listening for any outdoors enthusiast.
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Sean Barrett
Sean Barrett started acting as a boy on BBC children’s television in the days before colour, when it went out live. He grew up acting in Z Cars , Armchair Theatre , Minder and Father Ted . His theatre credits include Peter Pan at the old Scala Theatre and Noël Coward’s Suite in Three Keys in the West End. Films include War & Peace , Dunkirk and A Cry from the Streets . He was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company and has lent his voice to a variety of video games, including the Dark Souls series. He has read titles by Samuel Beckett, Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Umberto Eco, Sheridan Le Fanu and Sir Walter Scott – all for Naxos AudioBooks.
Titles read by Sean Barrett
Titles read by Sean Barrett
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (unabridged) Barnaby Rudge (abridged) Barnaby Rudge (unabridged) Bleak House (abridged) Bleak House (unabridged) The Canterbury Tales III (unabridged) The Clumsy Ghost and Other Spooky Tales (unabridged) The Compleat Angler (unabridged) Life & Works – Antonín Dvořák (unabridged) Faust (abridged) The Go-Between (unabridged) In a Glass Darkly (unabridged) Julius Caesar (unabridged) Kafka on the Shore (unabridged) Malone Dies (unabridged) The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (unabridged) Martin Chuzzlewit (abridged) Martin Chuzzlewit (unabridged) Molloy (unabridged) The Moonstone (unabridged) The Name of the Rose (unabridged) The Pleasures of the Garden (selections) Rob Roy (unabridged) Life & Works – Franz Schubert (unabridged) Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (unabridged) The Unnamable (unabridged) The Voice of the Buddha (compilation) Waiting for Godot (unabridged) The Wealth of Nations (abridged) Zeno's Conscience (unabridged)
Carly Bawden
Carly Bawden ’s theatre credits include wonder.land (National Theatre); McQueen (Haymarket Theatre); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible), The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (360 Theatre, Kensington), and various productions for Kneehigh Theatre. Her television work includes Close to the Enemy and Doctors , and her radio credits include Journey in Red Shoes ; The Colour of Milk ; The Verb , Black Dirt ; The House in the Trees ; Glass Eels .
Titles read by Carly Bawden
Titles read by Carly Bawden
The Compleat Angler (unabridged) The Decameron (unabridged)
Steven Blakeley
Steven Blakeley trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. His extensive theatre credits include The Rondabout (Park Theatre), Heartbeat (National Tour), Boeing Boeing (The Mill at Sonning) and The Private Ear and the Public Eye (National Tour), as well as various productions for Derby Live, the British Shakespeare Company and Theatre Royal Windsor. His television credits include Doctors , Holby City , Emmerdale and Heartbeat , where he was a regular for five series.
Titles read by Steven Blakeley
Titles read by Steven Blakeley
The Compleat Angler (unabridged)
Leighton Pugh
Leighton Pugh trained at LAMDA, after studying Modern Languages at Queen’s College, Oxford. He has previously recorded audiobooks for Penguin, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Random House, Hachette and Quercus. Radio work includes the plays Murder by the Book and Scenes from Provincial Life for BBC Radio 4 and the voice of Heinrich von Kleist in the BBC Radio 3 documentary The Tragical Adventure of Heinrich von Kleist . From 2010–11 Leighton was in four productions at the National Theatre, including The Habit of Art and A Woman Killed with Kindness .
Titles read by Leighton Pugh
Titles read by Leighton Pugh
L’Assommoir (unabridged) The Compleat Angler (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume II: 1664-1666 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667-1669 (unabridged) Germinal (unabridged) Nana (unabridged) Two on a Tower (unabridged)
David Timson
David Timson has made over 1,000 broadcasts for BBC Radio Drama. For Naxos AudioBooks he wrote The History of the Theatre , which won an award for most original production from the Spoken Word Publishers Association in 2001. He has also directed for Naxos AudioBooks four Shakespeare plays, including King Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh), which won Best Drama Award from the SWPA in 2001. In 2002 he won the Audio of the Year Award for his reading of A Study in Scarlet . He also reads The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I , II , III , IV , V , and VI and The Return of Sherlock Holmes I , II , and III , The Hound of the Baskervilles , The Sign of Four , The Valley of Fear , and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes .
Titles read by David Timson
Titles read by David Timson
1,000 Years of Laughter (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Vols. I-VI (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume IV (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume V (unabridged) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume VI (unabridged) Opera Explained – Aida (unabridged) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (unabridged) Life & Works – Johann Sebastian Bach (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Barber of Seville (unabridged) Life & Works – Ludwig van Beethoven (unabridged) Blithe Spirit (unabridged) Life & Works – Johannes Brahms (unabridged) The Great Poets – Robert Browning (selections) Opera Explained – Carmen (unabridged) The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged) The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged) Opera Explained – Cavalleria rusticana (unabridged) The Christmas Collection (unabridged) Christmas Stories (unabridged) Classic Erotic Verse (selections) The Great Poets – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (selections) The Compleat Angler (unabridged) The Complete Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (unabridged) The Complete Sherlock Holmes (unabridged) Opera Explained – Così fan tutte (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume IV (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume V (unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume II: 1664-1666 (unabridged) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667-1669 (unabridged) Opera Explained – Die Fledermaus (unabridged) Dombey and Son (abridged) Dombey and Son (unabridged) Opera Explained – Don Giovanni (unabridged) The Faerie Queene (unabridged) Opera Explained – Falstaff (unabridged) A Family Christmas (unabridged) Favourite Poems for Children (selections) Opera Explained – Fidelio (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Flying Dutchman (unabridged) From Shakespeare – with love (selections) Ghost Stories (unabridged) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (unabridged) Opera Explained – Gilbert and Sullivan (unabridged) The Golden Ass (unabridged) Hamlet (unabridged) Life & Works – Joseph Haydn (unabridged) Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works (unabridged) Henry V (unabridged) Histories (unabridged) Young Adult Classics – The Hound of the Baskervilles (abridged) The Hound of the Baskervilles (unabridged) Opera Explained – Il trovatore (unabridged) The Innocence of Father Brown – Volume 1 (unabridged) The Innocence of Father Brown – Volume 2 (unabridged) Jason and the Argonauts (unabridged) Julius Caesar (unabridged) King Richard III (unabridged) Opera Explained – La Bohème (unabridged) Opera Explained – La sonnambula (unabridged) Opera Explained – La Traviata (unabridged) The Life and Works of Beethoven (unabridged) The Life of Mozart (unabridged) The Life of Samuel Johnson (unabridged) A Life of Shakespeare (abridged) Life & Works – Franz Liszt (unabridged) London Labour and the London Poor (unabridged) Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (unabridged) Opera Explained – L’elisir d’amore (unabridged) Macbeth (unabridged) Opera Explained – Madama Butterfly (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Magic Flute (unabridged) Opera Explained – The Marriage of Figaro (unabridged) Edward Gibbon – Memoirs of My Life (unabridged) The Merchant of Venice (unabridged) The Middle Way (unabridged) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (unabridged) The Moonstone (unabridged) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unabridged) Opera Explained – Orfeo (unabridged) Opera Explained – Orfeo ed Euridice (unabridged) Our Mutual Friend (abridged) Our Mutual Friend (unabridged) Opera Explained – Pagliacci (unabridged) Opera Explained – Pelléas et Mélisande (unabridged) The Pickwick Papers (unabridged) The Pleasures of the Garden (selections) Poems of the Orient (selections) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (abridged) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (unabridged) Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow (unabridged) The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged) The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged) The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III (unabridged) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (complete) (unabridged) Opera Explained – Rigoletto (unabridged) The Sign of Four (unabridged) The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (selections) Sketches by Boz (abridged) Stories from Shakespeare 3 (unabridged) Stories from Shakespeare – The Plantagenets (unabridged) A Study in Scarlet (unabridged) Symposium (unabridged) Opera Explained – Tancredi (unabridged) Life & Works – Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (unabridged) Opera Explained – Tosca (unabridged) The Trial and Death of Socrates (unabridged) Opera Explained – Turandot (unabridged) Twelfth Night (unabridged) The Valley of Fear (unabridged) Venus & Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece (unabridged) Life & Works – Giuseppe Verdi (unabridged) Opera Explained – Werther (unabridged) Wuthering Heights (unabridged)
Reviews
Escape an uncertain world by listening to David Timson and a talented cast brilliantly recreate the fishing classic The Compleat Angler , published in 1653. Never mind if you don’t fish: it’s a vivid window into 17th-century life, stuffed with natural history (kingfishers’ nests of woven fishbones, frogs blinding pikes with their front toes) and recipes for such delicacies as minnow tansies (‘fried with yolk of eggs, the flowers of cowslips and of primroses, and a little tansy’). There are also fishy poems by George Herbert and John Donne, as well as folk songs sung to the lute with a flourish. Izaak Walton wrote the book as a performance. It takes the form of a walk from Tottenham (in what is now north London) up the Lea Valley. He makes friends on the way and stops off to listen to milkmaids caroling and refreshing themselves with much cheer at the Thatched House at Hoddesdon. This has to be one of the best audiobooks so far.
Christina Hardyment , The Times
