Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans' bounty didn't disappear overnight. While today's fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the 11th century in medieval Europe.
- ISBN13 9781597265775
- Publish Date 5 January 2009 (first published 30 July 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Island Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 456
- Language English