David Ladensohn

Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with water. The famed Italian Renaissance artist meticulously drew every aspect of rivers, from the nature of water drops to the ways currents create and destroy the earth's surface. His obsession led him to become a professional hydraulic engineer and an expert on the physics of water. He disproved Aristotle's 1,800-year-old theory of the water cycle and developed the one we use today. He discovered the nature of erosion and heretically disproved the biblical flood. He created beautiful maps and drawings of river currents and of his audacious plans to reroute the Arno River for war and peace.

It is obvious to David Ladensohn, who has been fly-fishing for forty years, that Da Vinci 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 Da Vinci's remarkable biographyfrom underprivileged child to celebrity whose company was sought by competing rulers in Italy and Franceand 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 Da Vinci led him to native rivers in Italy to scholars at Oxford and the inside of Windsor Castle, where he studied the finest of Da Vinci'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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trinity University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595343062
• Artikelnr.: 70220470

Autorenporträt

David Ladensohn is a retired banking industry executive and entrepreneur. He was recently named a Next Horizon Scholar at Oxford University. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Who's the Lucky Bastard Now?
Trout are Couch Potatoes
The Apprentice
What Now?
The Wit and Wisdom of a Fishing Guide
Originals
Master of the Water
Reading the Water
Observation and Experience
I'll See It When I Know It
The Experts
The Ultimate Thank You Gift
In Search of the Holy Grail
A Very Curious Man
The Rascal and the Gentleman
When Does Fishing Start?
The Big Dig
Trout Rodeo
Why Did Leonardo Cut (Off) His Ear?
A Breath of Fresh Air
Fishing in Four Dimensions
Oh. What a Lovely Mess!
The Fishing Experts
Bears, Deluge, and Exploding Mountains
Success or Failure?
Acknowledgments
About the Author