Silver Shoals av Charles Rangeley-Wilson

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<p><b>¿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 <i>Underland.</i></b><br><br><b>An idiosyncratic history of our island story told through five iconic fish</b><br><br> 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.<br><br><br>In <i>Silver Shoals</i> 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. <br><br><br>In the company of trawlermen, longshoremen, conservationists and