Shark Drunk The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean
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Morten Strøksnes is an award-winning Norwegian writer. After studying in Oslo and Cambridge, Strøksnes embarked on a career as a journalist. He has published eight critically acclaimed books of reportage, essays and literary non-fiction. Shark Drunk was awarded five prizes in Norway when it was first published, including the prestigious Brage Prize for non-fiction.Full of personal anecdotes, facts on marine life and life in general along coastal Norway, and about the hunt for a big fish ... <b>So, the book is much like fishing I guess — it’s not about the catch, it’s about just being there.</b>
- Jo Nesbo, New York Times
A description of what happens to dead whales gives way to an <b>impressively thorough</b> history of the Aasjord family’s cos-liver-oil business… <i>Shark Drunk</i> does contain plenty of interesting stuff.
- James Walton, Daily Telegraph
Stroksnes’s sidelong approach to science is <b>beguiling</b>… There are moments of adventure… but <b>the triumph of this book is it descriptions</b>… Its beauty, undemanding science and soothing, musing qualities have made the book a bestseller in Norway and beyond.
- Horatio Clare, Observer
<b>A fine book. A hymn of love to the sea.</b> The story of a friendship. And a sad chronicle of so much that is wrong about our relationship with the oceans. <b>Deserves to be read widely.</b>
- James Rebanks, author of THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE,
Mr Stroksnes beautifully describes the midnight sun, majestic fjords and moody stretches of sea, the changing light and the peaks that rise up out of the water, as well as the Moskstraumen, a system of whirlpools long feared by sailors… Putting "shark-drunk" man into perspective as the real threat to the ocean is one of the many threads Mr Stroksnes has pulled together in a narrative that takes in history and philosophy, mythology and folklore, from Norway's fishing past to science and the cosmos. Rather than an account of two men trying to catch a shark, it is really a homage to the sea and a call to arms to protect the ecosystem that humans treat so abysmally yet rely on so much.
Economist
Stoksnes' prose has won multiple awards and <i>Shark Drunk... </i>[is] <b>one literary voyage well worth embarking on</b>.
- Bill Prince, GQ
Stroksnes weaves his tale from a dense wool of close observation, fishing yarns, erudition lightly worn, and <b>a helpless, consuming love of the ocean</b>.
- William Finnegan, author of BARBARIAN DAYS,
You sink into the deep waters alongside the hunters and live for a time in the alien world which covers most of our planet, among ancient sharks and vampire squid. <b>It is brutal, scholarly, thoughtful, fascinating and often very beautiful</b>: just like the nature it so wonderfully brings alive. <b>You taste the sea on every page.</b>
- Michael Pye, author of THE EDGE OF THE WORLD,
<b>Morten Strøksnes has enriched the world with a book of highly unusual originality</b>… As a reader I took the bait and got firmly stuck to the hook.
- Fredrik Sjöberg, author of THE FLY TRAP,
With <b>the open-minded inquisitiveness of Charles Darwin and the obsession of Captain Ahab</b>, Morten Strøksnes heads out to sea, chasing a monster of the deep known as the Greenland shark. Every page of <i>Shark Drunk</i> feels like a cabinet of curiosities, filled with head-scratching surprises, nuggets of wisdom, and wondrous insights. <b>Gorgeously written and thoroughly addictive.</b>
- Michael Finkel, author of THE STRANGER IN THE WOODS,
** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **
Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of obsession, enchantment and adventure. A love song to the sea, in all its mystery, hardship, wonder and life-giving majesty.
In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance.
Armed with little more than their wits and a tiny rubber boat, Morten Strøksnes and his friend Hugo set out in pursuit of this enigmatic creature. Together, they tackle existential questions, experience the best and worst nature can throw at them, and explore the astonishing life teeming at the ocean’s depths.
** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **
Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. A love song to the sea, in all its mystery, hardship, wonder and life-giving majesty.
In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark.