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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Redmond O'Hanlon has written three bestselling, highly acclaimed travel books: Into the Heart of Borneo, In Trouble Again and Congo Journey. For fifteen years he was the Natural History editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He lives outside Oxford with his wife and two children.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780140276688
ISBN-10: 0140276688
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: O'Hanlon, Redmond
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Redmond O'Hanlon
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.12.2005
Gewicht: 0,44 kg
Artikel-ID: 102483344