Moonlighting

Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels

By: MICHAEL BROWN

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Hardcover | 8 January 2011

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256 Pages

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In spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend:

?Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers - they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local?s fish for them. It?s called elvering.?

And so began a lifetime?s career, full of ups and downs, as a self- employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across Europe, to smoking mature eels, to selling them ? Michael and his long-suffering wife Utta have never looked back.

A heart-warming tale of running a small business on a shoe-string; and a passion for eels which never faded.

Industry Reviews

'Such charming, funny and engaged writing about what it is to follow your own romance -- and to make it real. Nothing is more fascinating than the slippery, eely world and Michael describes it with such warmth and knowledge and poetry. It filled me with nostalgia. Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst

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