Last Fish Tale, The The Fate of the Atlantic and our Disappearing - Hardcover

Kurlansky, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224082450 ISBN 13: 9780224082457

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2008

Synopsis

Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed? Have the number of large fish in the ocean decreased by 90 per cent over the past 50 years, as has been asserted by a respected scientist? Are 60 per cent of the fish species studied by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation either fully exploited or depleted, as one of their reports attests? Fishing at sea, an ancient trade and a way of life that has defined coastal towns throughout history, may be coming to an end. The culture and traditions of coastal Britain and of seagoing nations everywhere are now threatened with extinction.In his most important book yet, Mark Kurlansky - the celebrated author of "Cod, Salt and The Big Oyster" - explores the fate of our oceans and the decline of our most ancient coastal enterprise. "The Last Fish Tale" sends up a timely distress flare but one which brilliantly illuminates a colourful, exuberant and poignant landscape, from Newlyn in Cornwall to Gloucester in Massachusetts - a fishing village first settled by Englishmen in the early 1600s. The result is a cultural, economic, environmental and culinary bouillabaisse - the most compelling fish tale of our time.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Kurlansky is the author of several bestselling non-fiction titles including Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award), The Basque History of the World, Salt: A World History, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, a short story collection The White Man in the Tree and a novel, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224082450
• ISBN 13: 9780224082457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304