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  • A Short History of Britain’s Fisheries

    Inshore and Deep Sea Fishing

    by Mike Smylie ...
    Wherever you fit into the debate about food - vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, flexitarian, or carnivore - you cannot argue against the fact that fish have influenced our diet for millennia, and, for many, continue to do so today. We are, after all, an island nation surrounded by seas that were once extremely rich and diverse in its variety of both fish and shellfish, and it’s well known that early ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Herring

    A History of the Silver Darlings

    by Mike Smylie ...
    The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring has been commercially caught and its importance to the coastal peoples of Britain cannot be measured. At one point tens of thousands were involved in the catching, processing and sale of herring. They followed the shoals around the coast from Stornoway to Penzance and many towns on Britain's east ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • The Perilous Catch

    A History of Commercial Fishing

    by Mike Smylie ...
    For centuries Britain's commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home market and for export around the world. Fishing is one of history's most dangerous jobs, and when disasters occur they can affect whole communities: in 1872 some 129 men were lost in one night alone. Fishermen have lost their lives because of extreme ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Herring

    A History of the Silver Darlings

    by Mike Smylie ...
    The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring has been commercially caught and its importance to the coastal peoples of Britain cannot be measured. At one point tens of thousands were involved in the catching, processing and sale of herring. They followed the shoals around the coast from Stornoway to Penzance and many towns on Britain's east ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Noble Boatbuilders of Fraserburgh

    by Mike Smylie ...
    When Alexander Noble established his boatyard in 1898, he probably didn't realise he was also establishing a new Noble tradition. Alexander's yard would soon be handed over to his eldest son Wilson, who would set up Wilson Noble & Co. to build fishing boats – although he would branch out into minesweepers when needed in the Second World War. Meanwhile, second-youngest son James would break out on ... Read more

    $17.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices from the Shoreline

    The Ancient and Ingenious Traditions of Coastal Fishing

    by Mike Smylie ...
    For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from father to son. Some of these ancient traditions have been traced back as far as the days when the men from Scandinavia colonised these lands in the eighth and ninth centuries; others are simply nineteenth century in origin.Sadly, in recent years stocks ... Read more

    $17.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thomas Summers & Co.

    Boatbuilders of Fraserburgh

    by Mike Smylie ...
    After the end of hostilities in 1945, the fishing industry was quick to establish some semblance of recovery and a surge of new builds and restoration of Admiralty motor fishing vessels soon followed. In Fraserburgh, on Scotland's east coast, several established yards satiated this desire amongst the fishing-boat owners for new craft. Thus it wasn't surprising that a new yard sprung up at the end ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Traditional Fishing Boats of Europe

    by Mike Smylie ...
    For hundreds of years the design of fishing boats has followed traditional methods. Mike Smylie, author of Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain & Ireland (also published by Amberley) follows this seminal work with a new book on the fishing boats of Europe. The designs vary a lot, from the Mediterranean shore to the north of Norway, taking into account the catch, the climate and the seas. Covering ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • The Boats of the Somerset Levels

    by Mike Smylie ...
    Flat-bottom craft have always been fascinating, largely because they appear so simple in their construction at first glance, made by the farmers and fishermen who used them. Beneath this facade, however, they are examples of boatbuilding at its most complex. In Britain, the best examples can be found in the boats of the Somerset Levels and Moors, rivers and coastal waters. The Somerset Levels and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain & Ireland

    by Mike Smylie ...
    The definitive volume on Britains traditional fishing boats, by the author of Herring: A History of the Silver Darlings. The Coasts of Britain and Ireland are surrounded by some of the most tempestuous waters in the world and are among the most diverse too. For centuries, the inhabitants of these isles have harvested the rich bounty that lay just offshore. As a result of the diverse nature of the ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • From Duncansby Head to the Solway Firth: The Fishing Industry Through Time

    by Mike Smylie ...
    Series series The Fishing Industry Through Time
    Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid- 1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing. In this book, Mike Smylie takes us on a tour from Duncansby Head to the Solway Firth. Here, small crofting communities sit on the fringe of the sea, hidden among the lochs and islands that indent Scotland's beautiful west coast and using what may ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Ireland The Fishing Industry Through Time

    by Mike Smylie ...
    Series series The Fishing Industry Through Time
    The fishing industry has always played an important part in Ireland’s history. From the deep-sea trawlers to the traditional vessels that sailed around the coast, the harbours of Ireland were once full of craft, large and small, that employed men and women in their thousands. Since Ireland’s entry into the European Economic Community, it has lost control over its rich territorial waters, and we ... Read more

    $11.69 USD