An Antidote to Indifference

December 17, 2012 9:21 AM

Founded over beers in the summer of 2007, Caught by the River aims to document three friends' (and their friends') obsessions with British angling, waterways, books, records, movies, and pubs.

More recently, birds, urban nature, and a strong thread of post-punk antiquarianism have crept in, some very interesting and under-the-radar writers have come on board, and CbTR has expanded to include a press, a record label, a zine, a small shop, a podcast, and a "social club".

A few places to jump in:

• Richard King: Original Rockers
• Neil Sentance: 1934: Remembering & 1957: The Wharf
• Danny Adcock: High Tide at Thornham
• Amy Liptrot: Curious Isles – A Life on Orkney
  
• Jeb Loy Nichols: "It’s Karate Time" - Travis Wammack
• John Andrews: Gone Cuckoo – An Afternoon With Chris Yates
• Robin Turner: Island Hopping
• Charles Rangeley-Wilson: The Pigeon Hole, Holy Wells and Sacred Trout
• Nick Franglen: Life on Earth

posted by ryanshepard (2 comments total)

This reminds me a bit of the wonderful and quintessentially British humorous Victorian river travelogue Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
posted by Bwithh at 9:52 AM on December 17, 2012

I'm so glad you posted this. I had the preliminary links to do it myself but it got back burnered. CBTR has the first genuinely novel views of the countryside I've seen in years.
posted by cromagnon at 12:13 PM on December 17, 2012 [1 favorite]