The Art of Trolling

A brief account of most of the principal rivers in England, by a lover of the sport.

“I built a system to take photos of all of the airplanes that fly over my house.”

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From Bernard Quaritch, Rare books & manuscripts, Aquisitions-PDF Sept. 2021:

By the father of trolling, [NOBBES, Robert.]

The compleat Troller, or, THE ART OF TROLLING

with a Description of all the Utensils, Instruments, Tackling, and Materials requisite thereto, with Rules and Directions how to use them, as also a brief Account of most of the principal Rivers in England, by a Lover of the Sport.

London, printed by T. James for Thomas Helder, at The Angel in Little Britain 1682.

(Es geht um Schleppangelfischen.)

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UFO Newsletters from the Archives For the Unexplained: A large collection of newsletters from around the world and through the decades, dedicated to Unidentified Flying Objects and related gathered research. (German Language UFO-Mags)

UFO zines: The Internet Archive has a sub-archive, UFO Newsletters from the Archives For the Unexplained, which contains over 10,000 items dating back to the 1950s. As with crank books, the cover designs interest me much more than the contents which tend to be the pre-digital zine default of page after page of single-spaced typewriter text, plus the occasional grainy photograph.

Crank book covers: The prime crank decade was the 1970s, a period when publishers were falling over themselves to cash-in on the massive popularity of Erich von Däniken’s dubious investigations, while also catering to the by-products of the hippy era and the occult revival. Books by Charles Fort, Immanuel Velikovsky and James Churchward (the Mu series) all received reprints, with some appearing in paperback for the first time. The British editions of these books were published by imprints like Corgi, Panther and Sphere who were also publishing large quantities of science fiction, a situation that led to many crank titles being packaged as though they were fiction or fantasy. Sphere was in the vanguard, presenting a wide range of books with the same cover designs, cover artists and Novel Gothic typeface as their SF titles. A cynical move, no doubt, but it also makes the crank books seem more like fiction than their authors might have intended.

Absolute Elsewhere Contents: This is a bibliography of visionary, occult, new age, fringe science, strange and even crackpot works published between 1945 and 1988. Added to the mix are some other works which may relate to them, or at least give a sense of the spirit of the times. The main emphasis is upon works produced between 1960 and 1980, as the subtitle suggests.