Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci

Mediator and fly-fishing expert Ladensohn spotlights a little-known dimension of the Renaissance polymath. Leonardo da Vinci. With eye-popping photos and many visual illustrations, this book highlights Leonardo’s studies of water and then applies that knowledge to the modern-day sport of fly-fishing. Part biography, part study of water in its many manifestations, and part humorous exposition of the author’s experiences (40 years and counting) as an avid fly-fisher, this book is written for active and aspiring fly-fishers, of course, but also for readers who are neither. It explains sport terms, and intriguing anecdotes are interspersed throughout the text. The author has a gentle, self-deprecating humor that makes this quite readable and enjoyable. There are plenty of illustrations from Leonardo’s notebooks too, which thoroughly ground readers in basic hydraulic engineering principles.