How I Came to Know Fish

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Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman s sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries sleep and fishing.
Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father s eccentric business ventures - this bittersweet memoir tells the story of a childhood in Czechoslovakia, against the backdrop of World War II.