European eel
Anguilla anguilla
Every eel in every European river was born in the same patch of the Atlantic — and nobody has ever seen it…
An archive of fish, waters & tales
Kraken Legends
Hic sunt dracones
An archive of fish, waters & tales
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Volume I
Fishes
The fishes of the world and how they are taken — by hand, trap, longline or rod. One page per fish, however many seas it swims.
2 entries Volume IIWaters
Coasts, river mouths and lakes nobody has heard of — each naming what is caught there, when, and with what.
1 entries Volume IIILegends
Sea-monsters, drowned bells and wish-granting fish — retold plainly, never without saying where each came from.
2 entriesLatest entries
Lofoten
For a thousand winters the islands have emptied their houses to meet the cod. The method has not changed; only the boats…
The island that dives
Sailors land on an island, drive in stakes, light a fire. The island feels the heat and goes down.
Atlantic cod
Gadus morhua
For five centuries the fish that paid for ships — split, salted and dried on wooden racks, it travelled further than the…
The kraken, entered as an animal
A bishop questioned sailors, weighed their answers, and put the kraken into a work of natural history. That is precisely why the…