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Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
Written by Brian M. Fagan
Narrated by Shaun Grindell
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In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and bestselling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to grow, but it did so with a different emphasis. Where agriculture encouraged stability, fishing demanded movement. It frequently required a search for new and better fishing grounds; its technologies, centered on boats, facilitated movement and discovery; and fish themselves, when dried and salted, were the ideal food-lightweight, nutritious, and long-lasting-for traders, travelers, and conquering armies. This history of the long interaction of humans and seafood tours archaeological sites worldwide to show listeners how fishing fed human settlement, rising social complexity, the development of cities, and ultimately the modern world.
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Reviews for Fishing
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it! Extremely well researched, entertaining, a quick read (at least for me and I’m reading it for research for my novel).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brian Fagan want us to know about the things archeologists find interesting. Here it is the role fishing has played in the history of human development. It's pretty interesting stuff, if you are into that kind of thing. I found it fascinating and I sent the link to a friend who is a Roman history buff because the Roman empire was fed with fish (as were several others).Mr. Fagan's text wanders around the world, sometimes chronologically and sometimes west to east, describing what we know about fish and the people who hunted them. The writing is clear, if not always riveting, and I learned a lot about fish, fishing, and archaeology.If you like this kind of thing, absolutely grab this book. If you are looking into the history of any culture living near the sea, there is likely something in this book for you.I received a review copy of "Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization" by Brian Fagan (Yale University Press) through NetGalley.com.