Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish - Softcover

Knecht, G. Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594866945 ISBN 13: 9781594866944

Verlag: Rodale Pr, 2007

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This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and explores the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked tells the story of the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to Americans as "Chilean Sea Bass") and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing vessel Viarsa by an Australian patrol boat, Southern Supporter, in one of the longest pursuits in maritime history.

Author G. Bruce Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California "discovered" and renamed the fish, kicking off a worldwide craze for a fish no one had ever heard of and everyone had to have. With demand exploding, pirates were only too happy to satisfy our taste for Chilean Sea Bass. From the world's most treacherous waters to its most fabulous kitchens, Hooked is at once a thrilling tale and a revelatory popular history that will appeal to a diverse group of readers. Think The Hungry Ocean meets Kitchen Confidential.

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G. BRUCE KNECHT is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. His work has also been published in The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times Magazine.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rodale Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1594866945
• ISBN 13: 9781594866944
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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