{"product_id":"silver-shoals","title":"Silver Shoals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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 \u003ci\u003eUnderland.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn idiosyncratic history of our island story told through five iconic fish\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSilver Shoals\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderscoring 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 over-fishing: we learn how eels built our monasteries, how cod sank the Spanish Armada, how fish and chips helped us through two World Wars. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course there is a deeper environmental dimension to the story, but Charles'' optimistic perspective is this: no one is more invested in fish than the fishermen whose lives depend on them. If we can find a way to harness that passion then the future of fish and fishermen in Britain could be as extraordinary as its past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57556023214462,"sku":"NW9781784703653","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784703653.jpg?v=1781605970","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/silver-shoals","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}