Saltwater Game Fishes of the World : An Illustrated History

by Dunn, Bob

• ISBN13: 9781865130101
• ISBN10: 1865130109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Frank Amato Pubns

Summary

This is a book for all those who love the sea and the great oceanic and inshore fishes which inhabit it. It is a book, not only for anglers, but for marine scientists, nature lovers and seafarers of all nations who share a curiosity about these majestic creatures and how our knowledge of them slowly developed over the past two millennia. A 2000 year history of the early naturalist and fishes they first described. Illustrations are intensely evocative of the period and remind us of the skills of yesteryear, now largely lost. There is the never-told-before history of the ancient sport of sea fishing from its origins in the mists of antiquity to the present day.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Sources and Acknowledgements	xi
PART 1 The Naturalists	1	(72)
The Ancient Writers	2	(8)
Medieval Writers on Fish	10	(5)
Naturalists of the Renaissance	15	(4)
The Encyclopedists	19	(7)
Discovery of Foreign Fishes	26	(9)
The Classifiers	35	(7)
The Great Scientific Voyages	42	(7)
The Collections	49	(10)
Naturalists of the 19th Century	59	(14)
PART 2 The Fishes	73	(126)
The Broadbill Swordfish	74	(20)
The Sailfishes and Marlins	94	(15)
The Tunas and Mackerels	109	(17)
The Sharks	126	(25)
The Dolphin Fish	151	(7)
The Bluefish	158	(7)
The Striped Bass	165	(10)
The Tarpon	175	(10)
The Bonefish	185	(9)
The Cobia	194	(5)
PART 3 The Anglers	199	(72)
Origins of Sea Fishing as a Sport	200	(16)
Pioneers of Ocean Gamefishing	216	(17)
Big Fish - Big Tackle	233	(9)
Early Writers on Saltwater Fishing	242	(11)
Saltwater Gametishing Classics	253	(12)
A Sport Comes of Age	265	(6)
Selected Bibliography	271	(6)
Picture Credits	277	(1)
Index	278