There are dozens of photographs, but it is not the piscatorial pornography that makes this book so exciting so much as the stories Mr Buller has unearthed.Listed under titles like "The Mysterious Tale of Count Denissoff's 68¼lb Norwegian Salmon" are accounts of the astonishing tenacity of men hell-bent on extracting fish from water.
Moulin's trick has been to form a squad of players who burn with the tenacity of men who have had to work their way to the top after fearing their chances to get there, again or at all, had gone.
"We have to acknowledge the extraordinary tenacity of the man, and the personability of the man".
Genna Rae McNeil is thorough and passionate in her treatment of Houston, evoking a rich family tradition as well as the courage, genius, and tenacity of a man largely responsible for the acts of "simple justice" that changed the course of American life.
Anyone in doubt as to the state of Popeye Doyle's soul needed only to look at the state of his car, while the pursuit itself had all the dogged, terrierlike tenacity of the man himself: car chase as character study.
The fact that the League Two side took the lead then and held it for 45 minutes was both a sign of the struggles Owen Coyle's side would face over the coming months and the tenacity of the men from Cheshire's gentle hills.
Even the folks who sent in a bunch of fake photos (*cough* *cough*) – which I did not specifically prohibit, by the way – couldn't touch the tenacity of one young man and his camera.
In the cool of evening, the match having started at just after 5.30pm here, the 32-year-old fought back with the spirit and tenacity of a far younger man, determined to use up every last scrap of energy to keep himself in with the chance of another match.
Aliou Cissé epitomised the strength and tenacity of Metsu's three-man central midfield which swallowed France's threat through the middle.
Without the tenacity of a few visionary men, the newborn nation would have died in its cradle.None of this will be new to anyone familiar with American history, and, indeed, this is a story that has been often told, if rarely with the lucidity that Mr Ellis brings to bear.
