THE LAST SALMON FISHER
CHAPTER1 1-1 It was already the end of August. The eyes of the French were glued to two headline news articles in "Le Monde". One of them told of a flood in Paris. It said that the flood, brought by localised heavy rain, had destroyed several 1200 year old buildings. The second article was about a whale, with the headline, “Iron Whale Crashes into Fishing Boat". The night before he left Paris, Shin made a phone call to Godfrey the ghillie ---in Scotland people call fishing guides "ghillies"---. Usually he calls from Japan to find out how the weather is in Scotland before he leaves, but, as he happened to be finishing a shoot in Paris at the end of August that year, he decided to go to Scotland from Paris directly. Although he was going to be at Godfrey's cottage the following evening and would then see how the weather was with his own eyes, Shin always wants to know the state of the weather before he heads off. When he goes on a business trip, he thinks it ...