{"product_id":"rigbys-encyclopaedia-of-the-herring-adventures-with-the-king-of-fishes-9781805264163","title":"Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring: Adventures with the King of Fishes","description":"This book contains almost everything you didn't know you needed to know about Atlantic herrings. (Pacific and Baltic varieties are in there too.) Herrings make the world bigger: with spawnings seen from space, a trillion individuals make this one of the tastiest and most abundant vertebrates on Earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"A Beginning' to 'Zuiderzee,\" count the wars fought over herrings; don't forget Scotland vs the Holy Roman Empire. The herring's high-pitched farts were logged as Soviet submarines, and one herring joke featured in a Jonson play, four Shakespeare plays and the glorious, suppressed fantasia Nashes Lenten Stuffe. Herrings mock taxonomists; physically change with sea temperature and salinity; stuff predators full to bursting, then swim away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Great Sardine Litigation? The true history of kippers? Bloaters? Reds? Chopped herring? Shuba? All this and more. Between sustainable fishery genetics, sixteenth-century Bavaria's \"Herrings, herrings, stinking herrings,\" and Van Gogh's ear, every entry is a story, a comic journey, an adventure. Some even come with recipes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGraeme Rigby's encyclopaedia grew out of a BBC Radio 4 series on preserved fish, \u003cem\u003eRigby's Red Herrings\u003c\/em\u003e, and the blogs and podcasts website herripedia.com. Part of Amber Film \u0026amp; Photography Collective for nearly twenty years, his allotment documentary book \u003cem\u003ePeaceable Kingdoms\u003c\/em\u003e was a collaboration with photographer Peter Fryer.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hurst \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51998100685074,"sku":"9781805264163","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1cde228d-1180-4e18-b972-417a7436aef4.jpg?v=1770139057","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rigbys-encyclopaedia-of-the-herring-adventures-with-the-king-of-fishes-9781805264163","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}