Showing Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon

Paperback. Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 352 Publisher: Penguin Redmond O'Hanlon describes his Extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney Trawler as it Journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch Young skipper Jason Schofield has a 2 million pound overdraft on his boat. the Norlantean. which is why he has to go out in a Category One Force 12 hurricane when the rest of the Scottish fleet has run for shelter. O'Hanlon may not be much help when it comes to seamanship - in the words of one of the crew. he doesn't know his arse from his tit - but he is able to wax lyrical on the amazing deep-sea fish to be found north of the Wyville Thomson Ridge: greater argentine. flying squid. blue ling. the truly disgusting hagfish and many other exotics. Combining humour with erudition. O'Hanlon has written a vivid and compulsively readable account of a journey that for sheer terror ...