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.
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