Language: Swedish
Today there are at least 300,000 anglers in Sweden. If you count "summer fishermen", we are up to over a million.
Fishing provides the opportunity for relaxation, recreation and recovery in the great outdoors. Research shows that all types of outdoor activity lead to reduced stress, strengthened cognitive ability and improved mental health. Nature has a healing power and fishing is an activity that helps keep you mobile and healthy in the long term. Sport fishing also creates nature tourism at coastal areas and rivers, at lakes and holiday homes, which provides jobs and local income in sparsely populated areas. The author Mikael Engström, who is well known in the Swedish fishing world, shares in this book his own stories from the life of a big fisherman. It is a collection of short stories that deal with more than just fishing and nature and offer light and dark, humor and seriousness. The target group is already interested in nature and fishing, but the hope is to also introduce beginners to this very healthy hobby.
Mikael Engström, writer and photographer, has worked for various fishing magazines for the past 30 years. He has also published four books about fishing as well as several children's and youth books, among others the books about Atom-Ragnar. Multiple August nominee and awarded for his youth novels Dogge och Isdraken, Sommarpratare 2006.
"Simple and close to everyday life but all the time with the big questions woven in between pike wobbles and trolling spoons. /.../ Even though I'm dead tired after a week with hundreds of miles behind the wheel and long working days, I can't put down the book that has been brought to bed with me . It gives back something that it often feels like we've lost. A primal and genuine urge to catch fish. To prove to ourselves that we can outwit the fish and thus ourselves." Anders Nicander, Fiskejournalen
Product information
Author: Mikael Engström
Designer: Per Kollberg
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789189021969
Language: Swedish
Weight: 682 grams
Released: 2023
Publisher: Votum Publishers
Pages: 199