Saviour Fish (eBook)

Life and Death on Africa's Greatest Lake

Mark Weston (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
216 Seiten
John Hunt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78904-859-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Mark Westons book is a delight. From charming neighbourhood children to failing fish stocks, not forgetting the perfect recipe for banana beer, The Saviour Fish is a compelling account of life on a remote Tanzanian island, told by a writer who has his eyes wide open and his heart fully engaged. James Copnall, Presenter, Newsday, BBC World Service, and author of A Poisonous Thorn in our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudans Bitter and Incomplete DivorceSent to live on a remote island in the Tanzanian half of Lake Victoria, Mark Weston finds a community grappling with one of the worlds great unknown environmental crises.You used to be able to stand on the beach and fish. In my fathers time, you could catch them with your bare hands.Lake Victoria was once one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, but a predator released into its waters by East Africas British colonisers has left a trail of destruction in its wake. The lives of millions of people have been upended, as a fateful confluence of overfishing, pollution and deforestation has triggered one of historys greatest mass extinctions.On remote Ukerewe Island, Mark Weston finds out how local communities are responding to the crisis. He lives for two years alongside the families and fishermen hardest hit by the upheaval and gets to know the aid workers, sorcerers and holy men whose businesses are booming.A captivating blend of travel writing and environmental reportage, The Saviour Fish paints an intimate picture of rural Tanzanian life, and of the human cost of biodiversity loss.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Afrika
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: African great • biodiversity • Biodiversity Loss • Cichlid • East Africa travel • Evolution • extinction • fishing in Africa • Great Lakes • Lakes • Lake Victoria • Memoir • N • Overfishing • rural Tanzanian life • saviour fish • saviour fish, memoir, fishing in Africa, great lakes, Lake Victoria, biodiversity loss, biodiversity, evolution, overfishing, Tanzania travel, Tanzania, Tanzanian life, rural Tanzanian life, African great, lakes, extinction, cichlid, East Africa travel, Nile perch, Nile river, extinction rebellion, travel writing, the environment, environmental reportage, ecology, overfishing, pollution, deforestation, indigenous people, nature, conservationism, social science, environmental conservation, books about Africa • Tanzania • Tanzanian life • Tanzania travel
• ISBN-10: 1-78904-859-1 / 1789048591
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78904-859-9 / 9781789048599