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A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love affair with the silver darlings.
Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans and the English enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle's bite and brine.
Throughout the long centuries men have fished around their coastlines and beyond, the herring has done much to shape both human taste and history. Men have co-operated and come into conflict over its shoals, setting out in boats to catch them, straying, too, from their home ports to bring full nets to shore. Women have also often been at the centre of the industry, gutting and salting the catch when the annual harvest had taken place, knitting, too, the garments fishermen wore to protect them from the ocean's chill.
Following a journey from the western edge of Norway to the east of England, from Shetland and the Outer Hebrides to the fishing ports of the Baltic coast of Germany and the Netherlands, culminating in a visit to Iceland's Herring Era Museum, Donald S. Murray has stitched together tales of the fish that was of central importance to the lives of our ancestors, noting how both it - and those involved in their capture - were celebrated in the art, literature, craft, music and folklore of life in northern Europe.
Blending together politics, science, history, religious and commercial life, Donald contemplates, too, the possibility of restoring the silver darlings of legend to these shores.
Contents
Map of The Major Herring Ports of Northern Europe
Chapter 1: 'Them Belly Full'
Chapter 2: 'When the Seagulls Follow the Travellers'
Chapter 3: 'Return to Sender'
Chapter 4: 'There's a Ghost in My House'
Chapter 5: 'Get Off of My Cloud'
Chapter 6: 'Starman'
Chapter 7: 'Celebration of the Lizard'
Chapter 8: 'Seven Seas of Rhye'
Chapter 9: 'Blowing' in the Wind'
Chapter 10: 'Dweller on the Threshold'
Chapter 11: 'Spirit in the Sky'
Chapter 12: 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?'
Bibliography
'Reasons to be Cheerful'
Index
Photographic Credits
Plates
