Famous for "The Compleat Angler" (1653) describing the pleasures of fishing, he also wrote several biographies notably of English poet John Donne.

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Apart from a long slumber lasting from 1676 to 1750, Walton's "The Compleat Angler" has never stood still, either as book or as inspiration.

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Ernest Hemingway lived on the small island chain in the Bahamas from 1935-1937 and famously drank vodka martinis, extra dry with olives, inside the Compleat Angler Hotel, which burned down in 2006.

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