Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, Redmond O'Hanlon
now ventures into his own perfect storm in the wildest waters he
could find.
His rendezvous with destiny begins aboard a trawler converted for
deep-sea fishing at a cost of $3 million-which is why its young
skipper's setting out from Scotland's northern tip when the rest of
the fleet is running for safe harbor. Equipped with a fancy Nikon,
an excessive supply of socks and no seamanship whatsoever, O'Hanlon
joins a crew of five who stock a bottomless hull with the catch,
day after sleepless day, even as the hurricane threatens to wash
them overboard. While he helps inventory the creatures of the
deepest North Atlantic-from jellycats to the wormlike hagfish,
unchanged since its evolution more than 500 million years ago-his
shipmates exchange manic monologues that range from their woeful
longing for loyal women to trade laws and complex fishing quotas.
Rich in oceanography, marine biology and men's lives, "Trawler
reveals once again the inimitable spirit of the man Bill Bryson has
called "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English
language, and certainly the most daring."
"From the Hardcover edition.
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