I picked up this book in a library in Tromsø, while on a hiking trip to Lyngen fjord. I was definitely drawn to it by the coastal feeling of a fishing area.

I read the book as a stream of consciousness, dotted with a mix of high level scientific facts and detailed historical (mostly local) anecdotes and stories. It is also sprinkled with a dusting of testosterone here and there (comparing animal parts with a bottle of booze? Ok…).

What rosed my eyebrows was the veiled references to how humans are changing the environment up until the end of the book, when it becomes so obvious that needs to be stated. But even then, climate change, the main reason for mass extinction taken place around us is mentioned in a fleeting manner. The book was written in 2015.