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Silver Shoals - Five Fish That Made Britain (Paperback)
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Silver Shoals - Five Fish That Made Britain (Paperback)
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List price R512
Loot Price R463
Discovery Miles 4 630
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'A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws
the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny journey.'
Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author of Underland. An
idiosyncratic history of our island story told through five iconic
fish On these rain-swept islands in the North Atlantic man and fish
go back a long way. Fish are woven through the fabric of the
country's history: we depend on them - for food, for livelihood and
for fun - and now their fate depends on us in a relationship which
has become more complex, passionate and precarious in the
sophisticated 21st Century. In Silver Shoals Charles
Rangeley-Wilson travels north, south, east and west through the
British Isles tracing the histories, living and past, of our most
iconic fish - cod, carp, eels, salmon and herring - and of the
fishermen who catch them and care for them. In the company of
trawlermen, longshoremen, conservationists and anglers Charles goes
to sea in a trawler, whiles away hot afternoons setting eel nets,
tries to bag his first elusive carp and drifts for herring on Guy
Fawkes night as fireworks starburst the sky. Underscoring this
journey is a fascinating historical exploration of these creatures
that have shaped our island story. We learn how abundant and valued
these fish were centuries before our current crisis of
over-fishing: we learn how eels built our monasteries, how cod sank
the Spanish Armada, how fish and chips helped us through two World
Wars. Of course there is a deeper environmental dimension to the
story, but Charles' optimistic perspective is this: no one is more
invested in fish than the fishermen whose lives depend on them. If
we can find a way to harness that passion then the future of fish
and fishermen in Britain could be as extraordinary as its past.
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