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.
| ISBN: | 9781906122348 |
| Publication date: | 8th September 2011 |
| Author: | Michael Brown |
| Publisher: | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 255 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Agribusiness and primary industries Manufacturing industries |
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.
Moonlighting features in the following genres: Memoirs, Agribusiness and primary industries, Manufacturing industries
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Moonlighting was written by Michael Brown and published by Merlin Unwin Books
Moonlighting has 255 pages
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