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Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain - Softcover

Fort, Tom

 
9780008283483: Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0008283486 ISBN 13: 9780008283483
Verlag: William Collins, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams.

From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and quarrellous Victorian societies to the evolution of angling and eventual gentrification of river access, this history spans thousands of years and ends with a poignant call to protect the underwater world from the horrors of industrial fishing and farming.

Meanwhile, another thread of the narrative weaves in the lives of the fishes themselves: the incredible struggles of the Atlantic salmon and secretive eel; the pike, a lean and camouflaged predator; the carp, huge and stately, begetter of obsessions; the exquisite spotted brown trout and its silver cousin, the grayling.

Lives built on and around fishing have largely faded from Britain, but fishermen and conservationists are working tirelessly to prevent the same fate befalling the fishes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Fort has spent most of his working life with BBC Radio News. His interests, apart from lawns, include fishing and cricket, and he is the fishing correspondent for the Financial Times.

Also the author of ‘The Far From Compleat Angler’, Tom Fort now lives in Oxfordshire.

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Verlag
William Collins
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0008283486
ISBN 13 
9780008283483
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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