Fisherman's Blues
A West African Community at Sea
ISBN-13: 9781594634864
Contributor(s): Anna Badkhen
Subject: Anthropology
Publisher Imprint: Riverhead
Publication Date: 15-03-2018
Format: Hardback
Availability: Out of stock
£24.99
About the book
For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable - between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder.