Frank Sawyer spent his life in the valley of the river Avon which passes through the downlands of Salisbury Plain. From early boyhood he was enraptured by the river and the wild creatures that lived in and around it. At the age of eighteen he took the job of under-keeper and thereafter devoted his life to the upkeep of the river Avon. This book contains much of the wisdom and insight acquired in the course of the authors long life. Sawyers observations are still as fresh and perceptive as the day they were written and river keepers today would be hard pressed to find a repository of piscatorial and riparian information to equal it. Keeper of the Stream was first published in 1952 and since then it has acquired the status of a minor classic in the literature of its genre. This edition, with a new Introduction by Sidney Vines and some delightful illustrations by Charles Jardine, once again makes it available to a wide readership of conservationists, naturalists, and fishermen. 1985 n