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 rainswept islands in the North Atlantic man and fish go back a long way. Fish are woven through the fabric of the countrys 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 RangeleyWilson 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 overfishing 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...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: HBTB; Weight: 422 g; Dimensions: 132 x 198 x 23

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