- Publisher: William Collins
- Year: 2020
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 368pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x159mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9780008283445
- Product code: 533639
Casting Shadows
Fish and Fishing in Britain
Tom Fort New Hardback Illustrated
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Since prehistoric times, people have netted, lured and speared fish for food. This lyrical, richly evocative history follows the development of commercial and sport fishing across the UK. It records centuries-old traditions from Scotland to the Severn, describes the habits and lifecycles of species such as salmon, trout, pike and eel, and calls for their protection from industrial fishing and fish-farming.
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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.
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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Since prehistoric times, people have netted, lured and speared fish for food. This lyrical, richly evocative history follows the development of commercial and sport fishing across the UK. It records centuries-old traditions from Scotland to the Severn, describes the habits and lifecycles of species such as salmon, trout, pike and eel, and calls for their protection from industrial fishing and fish-farming.
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