Savage shore: travels with Nicaragua's last sharkhunters
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A compelling story of sharks, the men who hunt them, and a primeval world on the edge of destruction. Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bullshark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. Braving Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps and brackish lagoons, Edward Marriott joins the last surviving shark fishermen-a fierce ethnic brew of black Caribs, Nicaraguan Indians, and the descants of seventeenth-century English pirates-to sail in a dugout canoe and fish for shark with a handline. As Marriott charts the life of the bullshark, its migrations, its voracious feeding patterns, and the treasures it offers-oil for vitamins, hide for leather, and fins for soup-he reveals lives spent in fear and awe in the shadow of a monster that can sniff fresh blood a mile away. He also tells a tale of human greed: an elemental community, battered by civil war and natural disasters, is now degraded beyond repair to provide bounty for modern-day pirates. A gripping narrative of risk and adventure, a poignant record of loss and corruption, Savage Shore confirms Edward Marriott as one of our most original and insightful travel writers.
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Grouping Title | savage shore travels with nicaraguas last sharkhunters |
Grouping Author | marriott edward |
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Last Grouping Update | 2019-07-24 17:26:10PM |
Last Indexed | 2019-12-09 03:41:46AM |
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subject_facet | Bull shark -- Nicaragua Fishers -- Nicaragua Marriott, Edward, -- 1966- Shark fishing -- Nicaragua | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Savage shore : travels with Nicaragua's last sharkhunters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Savage shore : travels with Nicaragua's last sharkhunters / Edward Marriott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Savage shore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | travels with Nicaragua's last sharkhunters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Bull shark Fishers Marriott, Edward Shark fishing |