This brilliant collection of 120 high quality photographs, fortunately, records the industry’s heyday. Joined together b simple clear text it provides a first class record of a once important industry. The people, the boats, their equipment, the markets, the towns everything is memorably and very atmospherically described. Apart from maritime historians and fishermen, anthropologists and archaeologists will find this book of great value.
Ausmarine, September 2012
This brilliant collection of 120 high quality photographs, fortunately, records the industry’s heyday. Joined together b simple clear text it provides a first class record of a once important industry. The people, the boats, their equipment, the markets, the towns everything is memorably and very atmospherically described. Apart from maritime historians and fishermen, anthropologists and archaeologists will find this book of great value.
