Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
by Brian Fagan
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Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017. Softcover. Good Condition. Humanitys last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishingnot as sport but as sustenancearchaeologist and best-selling 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 foodlightweight, nutritious, and long-lastingfor traders, travelers, and conquering armies. This history of the long interaction of humans and seafood tours archaeological sites worldwide to show readers how fishing fed human settlement, rising social complexity, the development of cities, and ultimately the modern world. 347 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fishing & Hunting; United States; Fishing & Hunting; History. ISBN/EAN: 9780300215342. Inventory No: 269226.. 9780300215342
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 269226
- Title
- Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
- Author
- Brian Fagan
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0300215347
- ISBN 13
- 9780300215342
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Fishing & Hunting; United States; Fishing & Hunting; History. Unbranded EAN: 9780300215342 Brian Fagan Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
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