Seven Nights on the ALTA
£40.00
Seven Nights on the ALTA
There are many classic Atlantic salmon rivers each with its own unique history, but there is only one that can said to be ‘first among equals’ — the Alta River in northern Norway. The Alta’s primeval gorge setting, legendary monster salmon and excusive status have given it has an almost mythical reputation around the world.
About Jan Ekman
After being awarded a law degree from the University of Lund in Sweden, Jan worked briefly as a legal assistant in New York City. Before embarking on a long career in banking back in Sweden. He helped build Svenska Handelsbanken into the most consistently profitable commercial bank in Scandinavia, and he also took on several roles internationally.
Jan was passionate about his work but it was the outdoors that he truly loved, and probably more than anything, fly-fishing for Atlantic salmon. He fished the Alta for the first time in 1968. It instantly became his favourite river and he returned there every year between 1970 and 1988.
A regular contributor
A regular contributor to various Swedish angling magazines, both as a writer and photographer, he was particularly fond of describing the political, historical and, last but not least, culinary context.
His management background made him a natural candidate for the leadership of the Swedish sports-angling community. He was also the architect behind the merger in the mid 1960s of three independent groups into one national organization representing over 50,000 anglers. He caught his last salmon four months before he passed away in December 2004 at the age of 75.
Jan Ekman’s Seven Nights on the Alta…is rocket fuel for the imagination and, though I devoured it in one sitting, I know I shall read it again and again… I loved it
Sandy Leventon, Trout&Salmon
This is a thouroughly good read…
Keith Elliott, Classic Angling
What Jan does brilliantly is allow the reader to get to know him as an individual who has fished the Alta for many years – to see that he is a human just like the rest of us, a down-to-earth person who grew up fishing and came to the Alta through luck…
Tarquin Millington-Drake, Flyfishers’ Journal
Few of us anglers will ever get to fish the storied Alta, but this charming report helps fill that void. Seven Nights on the Alta is truly a story of love – of man and rivers, of the noble Atlantic salmon, and ultimately of untrammeled nature. I promise, once you begin you will read it through, and think again about saving the salmon, and all those other rivers that enhance our lives.
Paul Volcker
Having fished many Atlantic salmon rivers around the planet, there is no doubt that the Alta is the finest of all.
Lefty Kreh
Jan Ekman captures the very essence of the greatest salmon river on earth and leaves us wondering why we are not doing more to conserve the king of fish. Any salmon fisher’s library will remain incomplete without a copy of this book.
Marcus Janssen, Fieldsports Magazine & The Scottish Sporting Gazette
Seven Nights on the Alta is an intriguing and eloquent invocation of nights spent fishing the river. It is an absolute must-read for all avid salmon fly-fishermen.
Matt Harris
Jan Ekman leaves a lasting token of love for not only a river, but also for Salmo salar.
Martin Silverstone, Atlantic Salmon Journal
Also available:
ALTA Nineteen Years, 1970-1988 Photographs by Jan Ekman
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| Weight | .3 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 15 × 1 cm |
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