Hugh Falkus is known to a wide public as an outstanding sportsman, film director, writer and broadcaster, and his films on wildlife, many of them made for the B.B.C. Natural History Unit, have been acclaimed world-wide. To many he will be best known as an angler and his classic books 'Sea Trout Fishing' and 'Salmon Fishing' are regarded as standard works. His book 'Freshwater Fishing', written in partnership with Fred Buller, was published in 1975 and had gone to nine editions by 1987. Shooting and sailing are his other great sporting enthusiasms and his book 'The Stolen Years' gives an attractive and amusing account of his introduction to his three favourite sports