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It is obvious to David Ladensohn, who has been fly-fishing for forty years, that Leonardo would have made the perfect fishing guide. The artist's keen sense of humor and winning personality would have made him a wonderful companion. He knew more about how rivers work than any person before him and would have been outstanding at reading the water to figure out where the fish are. Beginning with Leonardo's remarkable biography—from underprivileged child to celebrity whose company was sought by competing rulers in Italy and France—and taking readers through the inspirations that led him to fall in love with waterways, Ladensohn makes the connection between the artist's life and his own deep knowledge of the art of fly-fishing. His adventures have led him to seek out the most unique, storied, and traveled fly-fishing locales in the world, including Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Bhutan, Italy, Slovenia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Ireland, England, and Mongolia.
Ladensohn's research on Leonardo led him to native rivers in Italy to scholars at Oxford and the inside of Windsor Castle, where he studied the finest of Leonardo's original water drawings. The illustrations, which remain little known even today, are reproduced here in color, many for the first time. Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci is meant to inform and entertain anyone interested in the artist or fly-fishing and their unlikely intersection.
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781595343062
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781595343062
- File size: 64245 KB
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Languages
- English
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Starred review from October 18, 2024
Mediator and fly-fishing expert Ladensohn spotlights a little-known dimension of the Renaissance polymath. Leonardo da Vinci. With eye-popping photos and many visual illustrations, this book highlights Leonardo's studies of water and then applies that knowledge to the modern-day sport of fly-fishing. Part biography, part study of water in its many manifestations, and part humorous exposition of the author's experiences (40 years and counting) as an avid fly-fisher, this book is written for active and aspiring fly-fishers, of course, but also for readers who are neither. It explains sport terms, and intriguing anecdotes are interspersed throughout the text. The author has a gentle, self-deprecating humor that makes this quite readable and enjoyable. There are plenty of illustrations from Leonardo's notebooks too, which thoroughly ground readers in basic hydraulic engineering principles. VERDICT Leonardo da Vinci aficionados and fly-fishers will rejoice. Ladensohn pulls off explaining the link between these two topics. His highly recommended book effortlessly makes the connections relevant and engaging.--Marjorie Mann
Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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