{"product_id":"rigbys-encyclopaedia-of-the-herring","title":"Rigbys Encyclopaedia Of The Herring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn all-in-one deep dive into the Atlantic herring and its far-reaching dominions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains almost everything you didn''t know you needed to know about Atlantic herrings. (Pacific and Baltic varieties are in there too.) Herrings make the world bigger: with spawnings seen from space, a trillion individuals make this one of the tastiest and most abundant vertebrates on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom ''A Beginning'' to ''Zuiderzee'', count the wars fought over herrings; don''t forget Scotland vs the Holy Roman Empire. The herring''s high-pitched farts were logged as Soviet submarines, and one herring joke featured in a Jonson play, four Shakespeare plays and the glorious, suppressed fantasia \u003cem\u003eNashes Lenten Stuffe\u003c\/em\u003e. Herrings mock taxonomists; physically change with sea temperature and salinity; stuff predators full to bursting, then swim away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Sardine Litigation? The true history of kippers? Bloaters? Reds? Chopped herring? \u003cem\u003eShuba\u003c\/em\u003e? All this and more. Between sustainable fishery genetics, sixteenth-century Bavaria''s ''Herrings, herrings, stinking herrings'', and Van Gogh''s ear, every entry is a story, a comic journey, an adventure. Some even come with recipes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57304799805822,"sku":"NW9781805264163","price":21.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781805264163.jpg?v=1778561216","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/rigbys-encyclopaedia-of-the-herring","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}