Book description
Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an
Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of
its catch. Young skipper Jason Schofield has a 2 million pound
overdraft on his boat, the Norlantean, which is why he has to go out
in a Category One Force 12 hurricane when the rest of the Scottish
fleet has run for shelter. O'Hanlon may not be much help when it comes
to seamanship - in the words of one of the crew, he doesn't know his
arse from his tit - but he is able to wax lyrical on the amazing
deep-sea fish to be found north of the Wyville Thomson Ridge: greater
argentine, flying squid, blue ling, the truly disgusting hagfish and
many other exotics.
Combining humour with erudition, O'Hanlon has written a vivid and
compulsively readable account of a journey that for sheer terror beats
all his previous adventures.
Redmond O'Hanlon has written three bestselling, highly acclaimed
travel books: Into the Heart of Borneo, In Trouble Again and Congo
Journey. For fifteen years he was the Natural History editor of The
Times Literary Supplement. He lives outside Oxford with his wife and two
children.
