Charles Darwin: His Life And Work. (World's Classics) (Illustrated)

Charles Frederick Holder (1851-1915) was the inventor of big-game fishing and a founder of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses and the Tuna Club of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California.Holder came from a wealthy Massachusetts Quaker family. His father was the zoologist Joseph Bassett Holder (1824-1888) and his mother Emily Augusta Gove. After working as a curator at New York's American Museum of Natural History, he moved to Pasadena, California in 1885. A passionate naturalist throughout his life, he was known for his books on marine zoology and the first books on big-game fishing, a sport Holder pioneered in 1898. His books are noted for their combination of accurate scientific detail with exciting narratives

• • Author: Charles Frederick Holder
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 14, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 166 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1530538823
• • ISBN-13: 9781530538829