As much an autobiography as it is a book on fishing, the author describes his experience of river fishing whilst travelling the world. Negley Farson never fails to take his fishing rod. There are chapters on Pacific Salmon, The Shetland Islands, Uxbridge, and The Hebrides, Ireland, the Caucasus, Moscow and the Danube, erupting volcanoes in Chile, rural and urban life in England, France, and Norway.