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Moonlighting: Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels
Moonlighting: Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels
Moonlighting: Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels
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Moonlighting: Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels

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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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 15, 2014
ISBN9781906122775
Moonlighting: Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels
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Michael Brown

Michael Brown is Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of a number of books including Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples and Politics in the British Isles 1280–1460 and Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles,1307–1323. His research interests are political society of Scotland c.1250–c.1500. He has published studies of the practice and ideology of royal and aristocratic lordship in Scotland

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