The sketches have made Richards somewhat of a folk hero in the industry, and they provide him a unique marketing angle, but his book is much more than a few interesting illustrations.

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His principal forerunner is the putative author of "A Treatise of Fishing With an Angle, " published in 1486 in The Book of St.

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But a new book, Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, takes a wide-angle view of the dynamic globe.

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