[PDF.76se] Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily

Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily

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 | #273343 in Books |  2000-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.03 x5.66 x8.59l, | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Another must-read about Sicily|By Karen E. Datko|I did not anticipate that I would find the story of the mattanza off the island of Favignana so fascinating. The book is about this ancient style of tuna harvest, the men who carry on the tradition, and the reasons why the mattanza is fading into history. Reading this book will make you want to plunk yourself down on Favignana an|.com |A mattanza, in Italian, is a slaughter--in the instance Theresa Maggio relates, a springtime slaughter of bluefin tuna, the fish highly prized by sports fishermen and gourmands. In these elegant pages, Maggio describes the hard lives of Sicilian fi

In 1986, love drew Theresa Maggio to Favignana, an island just off the coast of Sicily. There the young journalist encountered the mysterious world of the tonnara-the ritual trapping and killing of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea-and the mattanza, the stunning, bloody climax of the fishing season when the huge fish are wrestled from the sea and killed. Mattanza is the riveting story of Maggio's annual return to witness this timeless struggle between man and the sea...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily   |  Theresa Maggio. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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