STILL SEARCHING

By Terry Hearn

Gift inscription to front end-paper verso, front hinge slightly torn otherwise a clean hardback in just slightly shelf-worn but complete and untorn dust-wrapper.

First edition, first printing.

2006 1st edition. 4to (174 x 252mm). Ppx,478. Colour photographs, colour and monochrome illustrations and colour-illustrated maps by Gareth Fareham and Glynn Gomersall, green end-papers, illustration on front end-paper. Dark green boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

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The increasingly scarce first printing of Terry Hearn's Still Searching. Certainly one of the most highly regarded of all modern carp angling books.

"Terry Hearn is a carp-angling phenomenon. More than an angler, Terry is an accomplished carp hunter, with a hunter's eye, dedication and instincts. He has an uncanny ability to tune-in to his quarry's environment, and he makes full use of what he learns. There is nothing magical about what Terry does. His staggering catches are the product of his skills as a carp hunter aligned with a passion for his sport that burns ever brighter with the passage of time. In his first book, In Pursuit of the Largest, we followed Terry on a journey through his carp angling life, charting triumph, disaster and an inspirational enthusiasm to be out there doing what he loves best. Now, with the arrival of Still Searching, we can see where that journey has taken him and, of course, we again get to marvel at the magnificent fish he's caught along the way. The Terry Hearn of today is a more complete angler, although he's just as hungry for success, just as keen to add more knowledge to his angling armoury and still driven to search out his type of fish, from his type of waters. Plenty of dawns will find him perched in a lakeside tree, Polaroids on, seeking an elusive piece of yet another carping puzzle. He does it because he loves it, and the pure enjoyment of what he does is as much a feature of this book as its hundreds of superb photographs and the countless carping adventures. If In Pursuit was a study of a carping life in progress, Still Searching is very much the finished article. Terry has produced a simply stunning book and one that is undoubtedly set to become a classic of its kind." (Publisher's blurb).

Contents include:- Return to The Mere; Off to Oxford; Sutton scaleys, Autumn '98; Last gasp whacker, Sutton shutdown, March '99; Back to 'Oxland', Manor the Big S, and the last of the Leneys; The Big S, a new challenge; Last of the Leneys; Trip to Northants; Suffering on Sutton; Three counties, three forties; Toadless, and Heather's Little Sister; The Runcton Beast; The Causeway Lake; Tolpits, the games begin; The Big S, a traditional start; Tolpits, a meeting with Lesters; Out and about; Start on the Priory; Canal carpin; Adventures on snake pit; Back to the Priory; Tolpits, a telegraph from the Italian, and Sonning calls; Start on Sonning, the inland sea; Grand Union Canal, Ev bags the Big Lin'; A special spring, a special summer, the big Test Valley mirror; A passion for Petals; Tolpits - the last of the big five; Sonning, the quest for The Eye continues; A spring in 'Oxland'; Summer '03, Yateley, Longfield, and The Clear Pit; Winter '03-'04, all I want for Christmas is one bite; Guest writers: Jason Hayward, Discovery of a dream; Micky Gray, The Big Pit; Steve Webb, Howling at the moon; Joe Morgan, Snake Pit, now and then; Greg Richardson, Right time right place; Jerry Hammond, The Long Common; Nigel Sharp, Shoulders; Rig talk; St. Ives, spring '04; The Baby O; Relief Channel, summer dawns; The Dark Park, a new challenge; Dark Park, return; Return to The Relief Channel, autumn '04; Writing the book.