Sentence examples for book of fish from inspiring English sources

His novel Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001), about a 19th-century convict living in Tasmania, was awarded the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book as well as the Commonwealth's Regional Prize for best book.

The book has garnered huge acclaim, with the Guardian's Michael Williams calling it a "high point in an already distinguished career" for Flanagan, whose previous books include Death of a River Guide, Gould's Book of Fish and The Sound of One Hand Clapping.

Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan (2001).

GOULD'S BOOK OF FISH: A Novel in Twelve Fish, by Richard Flanagan.

Last year's overall winner was the ambitious, multilayered Gould's Book of Fish by Australian author Richard Flanagan.

Gould's story is also framed by another narrator, Sid Hammet, a present-day faker of antique furniture who discovers Gould's book of fish paintings in a junk shop.

According to the Book of Fishes (1952, National Geographic Society), a British surveyor investigating what is now British Columbia recommended that the region be left to the Americans because "the salmon will not rise to the fly".

Having to forgo business and field sports, Davy wrote Salmonia: or Days of Fly Fishing (1828), a book on fishing (after the manner of Izaak Walton) that contained engravings from his own drawings.

This book traces the history of fish farming from its ancient roots to its more modern uses today.

Children are surrounded by imaginary animals — butterflies on pajamas, animal-themed classrooms, books and movies full of fish and foxes that behave like people.

One result was the double images of faces and landscape or of human figures built of books, fish, or pots and pans by the 16th-century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo.