Name: Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic, Paperback/Redmond O'Hanlon
Brand: Vintage
Price: 130.99 RON
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Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O'Hanlon sets off on his next adventure: his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks, and no seamanship whatsoever, O'Hanlon joins the commercial fishing crew of the Norlantean , a deep-sea trawler, to stock a bottomless hull with their catch, even as a hurricane roars around them. Rich in oceanography, marine biology, and uproarious humor, Trawle r is Redmond O'Hanlon at his finest. About the Author: A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, Redmond O'Hanlon was the natural history editor of The Times Literary Supplement for fifteen years . He lives near Oxford, England, with his wife and their two children. "Among contemporary travel writers," according to The Washington Post , "he has the best nose for the globe's precious few remaining blank spots . . . Long may he trudge and paddle." The following books by O'Hanlon are available in Vintage paperback: Into the Heart of Borneo "A learned and sensitive book as well as a knockabout farce." - The New York Review of Books In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon "When Evelyn Waugh . . . and Graham Greene traveled, the going was still rough . . . Redmond O'Hanlon, hacking his way up an unmapped tributary of the Amazon, fearful (and not without good reason) of ending his days in someone's cooking pot, has ma