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Moonlighting: Tales and Misadventures of a Working Life with Eels

By Michael Brown

Book information

Publisher
Merlin Unwin Books Limited
Year
2014
ISBN
9781906122775
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7584879 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-24 01:24:16
Biography & Autobiography; Technology; Nonfiction;

Description

In spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers - they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's career, full of ups and downs, as a self- employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across Europe, to smoking mature eels, to selling them – Michael and his long-suffering wife Utta have never looked back. A heart-warming tale of running a small business on a shoe-string; and a passion for eels which never faded.

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