{"product_id":"9781805264163","title":"Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring","description":"Author: Graeme Rigby\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781805264163\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hurst Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jan 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn all-in-one deep dive into the Atlantic herring and its far-reaching dominions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains almost everything you didn't know you needed to know about Atlantic herrings. (Pacific and Baltic varieties are in there too.) Herrings make the world bigger: with spawnings seen from space, a trillion individuals make this one of the tastiest and most abundant vertebrates on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 'A Beginning' to 'Zuiderzee', count the wars fought over herrings; don't forget Scotland vs the Holy Roman Empire. The herring's high-pitched farts were logged as Soviet submarines, and one herring joke featured in a Jonson play, four Shakespeare plays and the glorious, suppressed fantasia Nashes Lenten Stuffe. Herrings mock taxonomists; physically change with sea temperature and salinity; stuff predators full to bursting, then swim away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Sardine Litigation? The true history of kippers? Bloaters? Reds? Chopped herring? Shuba? All this and more. Between sustainable fishery genetics, sixteenth-century Bavaria's 'Herrings, herrings, stinking herrings', and Van Gogh's ear, every entry is a story, a comic journey, an adventure. Some even come with recipes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857106325662,"sku":"ADS-9781805264163","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781805264163.jpg?v=1779154549","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781805264163","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}