{"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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graeme Rigby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurst \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.86h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805264163","brand":"Hurst \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45342505730185,"sku":"9781805264163","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_dfd1c4c8-8d4a-4a43-98dc-7a832943e072.jpg?v=1772517407","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/rigbys-encyclopaedia-of-the-herring-adventures-with-the-king-of-fishes-9781805264163","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}