FISHING: THE COASTAL TRADITION. By Michael W. Marshall.

1987 1st edition. 4to (193 x 257mm). Pp192. B/w photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

Interesting tour of parts of the British coast examining local fishing traditions, methods and boats. Shetland, Orkney, Scottish East coast, Stroma, Northumberland and Yorkshire, Hastings and Bournemouth, Cornwall, Wales. Includes sections on building a Stroma yole, pickling herrings, sailing a coble, weaving withy pots, building coracles. Many interesting photographs and illustrations.