[Read now] Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily
❀ Theresa Maggio ❀
| #1492298 in Books | 2000-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.03 x5.66 x8.59l, | File Name: 073820269X | 288 pages
||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 a|.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 f
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 se...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily | Theresa Maggio. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
