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Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic, by Redmond O'Hanlon

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“Edifying and hugely entertaining. . . . O’Hanlon’s is a magnificently original voice: manic, scholarly, funny, sumptuously descriptive, and more than slightly deranged.” –Jon Krakauer“One of the most thrilling and inspiring books about science I've ever read . . . hours of pleasure offered by an enchanting dinner guest [who] often reveals himself to be foolishly bold, comically inept, intellectually astute and a madcap driver: Mr. Toad with a Ph.D.” –Bruce Barcott, The New York Times Book Review“Trawler read[s] like The Perfect Storm meets Monty Python.”–Outside“O'Hanlon is an adventurer worthy of the word–a credentialed naturalist, a rompish wanderer, a sparkling armchair companion, a bit of a goof and also a smashingly evocative writer. . . . In that wild and exhilarating junction where human and nature meet, he pursues the joys of discovery.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, Redmond O'Hanlon now ventures into his own perfect storm in the wildest waters he could find. His rendezvous with destiny begins aboard a trawler converted for deep-sea fishing at a cost of $3 million-which is why its young skipper's setting out from Scotland's northern tip when the rest of the fleet is running for safe harbor. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks and no seamanship whatsoever, O'Hanlon joins a crew of five who stock a bottomless hull with the catch, day after sleepless day, even as the hurricane threatens to wash them overboard. While he helps inventory the creatures of the deepest North Atlantic-from jellycats to the wormlike hagfish, unchanged since its evolution more than 500 million years ago-his shipmates exchange manic monologues that range from their woeful longing for loyal women to trade laws and complex fishing quotas. Rich in oceanography, marine biology and men's lives, "Trawler reveals once again the inimitable spirit of the man Bill Bryson has called "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language, and certainly the most daring." "From the Hardcover edition.

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Product details

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Vintage (January 3, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9781400078103

ISBN-13: 978-1400078103

ASIN: 1400078105

Product Dimensions:

5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.7 out of 5 stars

44 customer reviews

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#387,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

But then, Redmond O'Hanlon never brings the usual. This one seems to be a little weirder than his other books. If you can get weirder than long journeys up rivers with a slightly crazed, slightly podgy middle aged son of a vicar, a tour on a North Atlantic trawler is probably your best bet. Endless hours of work on little to no sleep in the freezing cold in dangerous January weather is a hard way to make a living. O'Hanlon brings us his version of deep sea trawling that is most definitely not your father's deep sea trawling account.

Great Read. Lots of humor and good storytelling mixed with in depth science reporting and naturalism and portraits of an unusual breed of men. One of the protagonists is an expert on sustainable fishing practices in the North Sea, a subject rarely explained. I read this book while at see which only added to the salty flavor.

I really enjoyed this book. It takes you deep into the relentlessly physically demanding and dangerous world of trawler-men. The primary method, though, is very unusual - dialogue between those aboard illuminates the inner-workings of both the ship's sociology and the author's pyche. It reads as stream of consciousness, not as a writing style (say of Kerouac) but as a re-creation of the reality between shipmates suffering from extreme sleep deprivation. Great stuff, with the bones of the story - fishing in the far north in the middle of winter in Force 12 winds and seas and the Darwinian wonders of deep sea life that comes up in the nets - driving the nonfiction tale of a two-week cruise.

Yes, yes fellow reviewers, this book is a bit fishy, so to speak, in many respects, not the least of which being the supposedly verbatim accounts of dialogue aboard ship. But, "aye", anyone who's read ANYTHING by O'Hanlon knows that he has to be taken with a few dashes of salt, in this case perhaps a whole shaker. My problem with the book was that O'Hanlon's playing a bit fast and loose with the truth did not make it fun to read, as in his previous books. Indeed, I felt seasick and in need of sleep (though I'd had plenty) after some chapters. So, on the one hand, he DOES do what the trawlermen hope he'll do: Show us what a hell on earth it is like for them out at sea. On the other hand, these sleep-deprived manic ramblings are more than a bit hard on the reader. It's not a very jolly book to plough through, a first for O'Hanlon. So, unless you have some deep and abiding need to know what it's like to be on a trawler in the worse possible weather for days on end with no sleep, or desire to go on a fishless diet for some medical reason, my advice is to pick up one of O'Hanlon's earlier works, such as No Mercy. - I've been on many a deep sea fishing boat and never been seasick. But something tells me, with memories of this book lodged in my head, next time I just might be.

Those of you familiar with Mr. O'Hanlon,, probably Lord O'Hanlon by now, recognize the title of this review as the title of another of his books. That is the theme since his character, while not seeming to be an adventurer, constantly embarks on amazing adventures.This story involves going on a fishing trawler as an observer's assistant in the north Atlantic during a mid-winter gale. The hook is that he received a grant to write a piece about the vanishing wild places of Great Britain and decides that is the continental shelf. While he mostly writes about his tropical jungle misadventures, he brings the same keen powers of observation and imaginative cowardice to the table. The natural history is really compelling and the humor absurd.

Redmond O'Hanlon lost me on this one. There are a handful of fine vignettes of daily life and duty aboard the ship in "Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic." But those few succulent morsels are seriously outdone by a ponderous, rambling narrative, dashed off late at night which he never revisits to polish up, which simply, tires you out.I was disappointed because as an armchair adventurer, this could have been the type of tale I relish. But O'Hanlon's writing here is sloppy and loose, unstructured with lots of tangents that lead to dead-ends. It was too heavy to shake off.I can't recommend this book as a book of its type. There are many other seafaring adventure tales that "tell the tale well." You might glance through this book and find the few juicy morsels but that's it.

This book is a wild romp -- informative, funny, and fascinating about different fish and the customs and culture of the men who man the trawler. The writer, a reporter, signs on with a deep sea trawler in North Sea for a month-long voyage and writes about all aspects of the that trip. The book is wildly funny about the fisherman, many of whom are Shetland Islanders, and life on board the trawler. The writer is also hilarious about himself -- there's some hints of autobiography here. The book feels like a mystery at times. The trawling is so deep, fish come up in those nets that no one has ever seen. There is a fish biologist on board too. And the politics of fishing regulations are amusingly described.My husband and I read Trawler aloud to each other and couldn't wait for the next "reading" session.ALC, Maine

Having worked on a trawler in my youth, I felt this book would give me another person's perspective and awaken some of my own forgotten memories.I won't draw it out, I couldn't finish it. After several determined attempts I gave up. I hate doing it and have done so only twice before.The book is almost entirely based on conversations and it was absolutely boring.

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