Fishing, Brian M. Fagan
Fishing, Brian M. Fagan
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Fishing
How the Sea Fed Civilization

Author: Brian M. Fagan

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 13 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/26/2017

Synopsis

In this history of fishing—not as sport but as sustenance—archaeologist and bestselling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to grow, but it did so with a different emphasis. Where agriculture encouraged stability, fishing demanded movement. It frequently required a search for new and better fishing grounds; its technologies, centered on boats, facilitated movement and discovery; and fish themselves, when dried and salted, were the ideal food—lightweight, nutritious, and long-lasting—for traders, travelers, and conquering armies. This history of the long interaction of humans and seafood tours archaeological sites worldwide to show listeners how fishing fed human settlement, rising social complexity, the development of cities, and ultimately the modern world.

About Brian M. Fagan

Brian M. Fagan is one of the world's leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was born in England, did fieldwork in Africa, and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Fish on Friday, The Little Ice Age, The Long Summer, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve

I’m not a fisher. In fact, I’m a vegan. Stat doesn’t mean, however, that the history of civilization isn’t important to me. Something that I’d never considered, and indeed, which is often overlooked, is just how important fishing has been for civilized society. Brian Fagan argues that it could not h......more

Goodreads review by Shotabdi

সভ্যতার সাথে সমুদ্রের সম্পর্কটা এখানে আলোচিত হয়েছে বৃহৎ পরিসরে। সমুদ্র তো অনেক কিছুর উৎস, শরীরের জ্বালানিরও বটে। ৩.৫/৫......more

Goodreads review by Vivek

Being an avid fisherman myself, who has done my fair share of fishing in lakes, rivers, surfs, and deep seas of North America, I was naturally drawn to this book when I saw it in hoopla. I have caught quite a few fish species using different tackle in my life and was always interested in the history......more

Goodreads review by Brian

I am not a fisherman. I rarely eat seafood. And (thankfully) this is not a book about those things, it is about how civilization was supported by and relied on the food from the seas. And so I enjoyed this latest work by Brian Fagan (the third book of his that I have read). Starting from distant pre......more

Goodreads review by Steven

A very informative book that really has me rethinking my understanding of early cultures and economies. However, it so needed a very close editing. At many times I thought the author had merely strung together separate articles into a book. Read this for the content and you will appreciate the new o......more

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