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Tunny: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Fish

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TUNNY - The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Fish In the 1930s, a peculiar annual event started off the north-east coast of England. Each year, in August, film stars, industrialists, society ladies and military heroes descended on Scarborough, determined to land one of the newly discovered leviathans of the sea - the tunny. By the early Fifties, however, this remarkable period of angling history had come to an end. With post-war austerity and the end of the Empire, tunny fishing somehow faded away. This book is a celebration of a short but glorious era when high society took to the high seas, wizened locals rubbed shoulders with knights of the realm, and a fish of 500lb was considered rather small beer . . . ' [Chris Berry] has done a good job in producing a story that needed to be told . . . an easy read . . . [with] real 'being there' appeal . . . A welcome contribution to the history of big-game fishing' - Classic Angling. ' . . . an account of the tunny fishing industry on the East Coast that's as entertaining as it is meticulous' - The Yorkshire Post.

Pages: 192

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Medlar Press

Release: April 01, 2010

ISBN: 1907110038

ISBN 13: 9781907110030

Tunny: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Fish

5/5 ( ratings)

TUNNY - The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Fish In the 1930s, a peculiar annual event started off the north-east coast of England. Each year, in August, film stars, industrialists, society ladies and military heroes descended on Scarborough, determined to land one of the newly discovered leviathans of the sea - the tunny. By the early Fifties, however, this remarkable period of angling history had come to an end. With post-war austerity and the end of the Empire, tunny fishing somehow faded away. This book is a celebration of a short but glorious era when high society took to the high seas, wizened locals rubbed shoulders with knights of the realm, and a fish of 500lb was considered rather small beer . . . ' [Chris Berry] has done a good job in producing a story that needed to be told . . . an easy read . . . [with] real 'being there' appeal . . . A welcome contribution to the history of big-game fishing' - Classic Angling. ' . . . an account of the tunny fishing industry on the East Coast that's as entertaining as it is meticulous' - The Yorkshire Post.

Pages: 192

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Medlar Press

Release: April 01, 2010

ISBN: 1907110038

ISBN 13: 9781907110030

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