Tales of Swordfish and Tuna

Name: Tales of Swordfish and Tuna
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Zane Grey
ISBN: 9781982685782

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Robert G. Slade

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/04/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Sports & Recreation, Fishing

Synopsis

Zane Grey fished up to three hundred days of the year. But, with all that time on the water, there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really big fish―the giants of the sea.In Zane Grey’s day, blue fin tuna were pursued with harpoons and sometimes are even today. There is the story of a swordfish that was hooked at 10:30 in the morning and played until 11:30 that night―only to …!Tales of Swordfish and Tuna will dazzle and thrill any fishing heart.

About Zane Grey

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872–October 23, 1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife, Lina Roth (Dolly) Grey, published his first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

About Robert G. Slade

Robert G. Slade has been a professional actor for nearly thirty years, performing in film, television, radio, and stage work. He appeared in Casino Royale in 2006. He has spent much of his professional life in Canada but has been appearing across the UK in all media since moving to London in 2005.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ant on July 08, 2022

The stories of fishing for the excitement of catching a record big fish are really a small part of the charm of this book. What really made this enjoyable for me were the descriptions of the beauty of nature such as Orca at play. The love of the sea really comes across in the writing.......more

Goodreads review by John on October 06, 2011

I read this when I was in high school about 55 years ago and liked it so much that I wanted to become a charter boat captain. I never did, but became instead one of the first certified fish pathologists in the nation!......more

Quotes

“Well worth reading for pleasure and instruction. Just as he invented the Western, Grey also pioneered sporting fishing for the large ocean species of game fish.” Chicago Tribune

“[Tales of Swordfish Fishing is], even today, among the finest works on big-game fishing.” Independent (London)