Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic

Name: Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Redmond O'Hanlon
ISBN: 9780140276688

Redmond O'Hanlon

03/06/2004
Penguin

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Couverture de Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic par Redmond O'Hanlon

Résumé

Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Young skipper Jason Schofield has a 2 million pound overdraft on his boat, the Norlantean, which is why he has to go out in a Category One Force 12 hurricane when the rest of the Scottish fleet has run for shelter. O'Hanlon may not be much help when it comes to seamanship - in the words of one of the crew, he doesn't know his arse from his tit - but he is able to wax lyrical on the amazing deep-sea fish to be found north of the Wyville Thomson Ridge: greater argentine, flying squid, blue ling, the truly disgusting hagfish and many other exotics. Combining humour with erudition, O'Hanlon has written a vivid and compulsively readable account of a journey that for sheer terror beats all his previous adventures.