To the uninitiated, ice fishing seems improbable, wacky, and dangerous. But every winter, more than 2 million hardy northerners go to their place on the lake: literally on the lake. Striking story-telling photographs by Layne Kennedy and engaging essays by outdoor writer and fisherman Greg Breining capture the quirky world of ice fishing - its natural beauty and solitary subzero vigils, along with its oddball practices and practitioners.Kennedy and Breining take readers to fun-filled if bizarre festivals that include 'Guys on Ice' in Door County, Wisconsin, the Tip-Up Town USA festival on Michigan's Houghton Lake, and the supremely self-mocking International Eelpout Festival on Minnesota's Leech Lake, which honours a slimy, pot-bellied, finny critter. Photos offer peeks inside ice houses that range from a plastic-bag cocoon to an impossibly luxurious Adirondacks ice residence with front porch and wet bar. Travel to a frozen lake in the Boundary Waters, to ice cities that form and disband overnight, and to the Volga River near Moscow, shadowed by the KGB. Perhaps most importantly, "A Hard-Water World" allows the reader to enjoy the beauty, wonder, and, yes, insanity of ice-fishing all year round and in the comfort of his or her own home. 127pp.
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Very Good. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

ISBN: 9780873516242

Inventory #59185

Price: £ 8.50 GBP ($ 11.14 approx. - € 9.44 approx.)

N.B. Lacks ffep. Stain to bottom edge of inside D/J. Rubbing to head of D/J spine. Small tear to corner of D/J.
Unwin Hyman, 1990, Cloth, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: Good. . . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0044405731

Inventory #59118

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 9.83 approx. - € 8.33 approx.)

Small plain label inside cover.
Mitchell Beazley, 1997, Cloth, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: Good. . . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 1840000104

Inventory #59191

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 12.45 approx. - € 10.55 approx.)

Collins, 1989, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Very Good. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0044404484

Inventory #49673

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 9.83 approx. - € 8.33 approx.)

N.B. Pages a little yellowed. Some light rubbing to edges and corners of D/J.
The Sportsman's Press, 1989, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0948253398

Inventory #36454

Price: £ 6.00 GBP ($ 7.86 approx. - € 6.66 approx.)

Bookplate on front pastedown.Slight spotting to endpapers.
Longmans, Green & Co Ltd, 1895, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Seventh Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #40159

Price: £ 10.00 GBP ($ 13.10 approx. - € 11.10 approx.)

D/J motsly complete but with some loss and tearing.Bookplate on ffep.
Adam & Charles Black, 1944, Cloth, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: Poor. Fifth Impression. . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #46125

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 6.55 approx. - € 5.55 approx.)

N.B. Very long inscription from previous owner to ffep. Tear to head of D/J spine which has been taped. Rubbing to edges and corners of D/J.
Clive Holloway Books, 1981, Cloth, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: Good. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0907745008

Inventory #42180

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 6.55 approx. - € 5.55 approx.)

Harvill Press, 1999, Cloth, Book Condition: Like New, Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 1860467032

Inventory #42949

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 9.83 approx. - € 8.33 approx.)

289pp.
Headwater Books, 2009, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. Book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9780979346095

Inventory #61305

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 12.45 approx. - € 10.55 approx.)