[PDF.47wb] The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

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 | #136155 in Books |  2014-05-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x1.10 x6.10l,.84 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||27 of 29 people found the following review helpful.| A Tough Read but Tremendously Rewarding|By John Michael Albert|A stupendous book. Of course, growing up in the age of Mrs. Paul's fish sticks and TV ads for Gortons of Gloucester, and Captains Courageous and The Perfect Storm, I've been aware of fish and fishing. Add to that the health industry's not very helpful back-and-forth of "fish is bad for you, it has mercury in it" a| |Bolster gives a fascinating account of the devastating impact of the sail-driven machinery that was unleashed on the North Atlantic since the early Middle Ages, which now appears like a trial run for the coup de coup de grace in the twentieth century.--Daniel

Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world.

While overfishing is often thought of as a contemporary proble...

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