Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. About the Citations and Abbreviations xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Heidelberg Booklet of 1493 and the Market for Information 31
8. 2. 'How to Catch Fish' 73
9. 3. A Collection of Popular Wisdom from Tegernsee Abbey 111
10. 4. Tegernsee Fishing Advice/ ca 1500 137
11. 5. Literary Performance and the Fisher's Sport in Basurto's Dialogo 191
12. 6. Fernando Basurto 'Dialogue between a Hunter and a Fisher' Zaragoza, 1539 215
13. 7. Letters, Craft, and Mind 320
14. Epilogue: Looking Back to England 345
15. Appendix 1. Some Fishes of European Fresh Waters 355
16. Appendix 2. Previous Modern Editions of and Commentaries on the Fish-Catching Tracts 359
17. Bibliography 363
18. Index 393
19. Backmatter 404