The Sea My Hunting Ground

The Sea My Hunting Ground , first published in 1958, is Anthony Watkins’ account of his adventures as a commercial hunter of the basking shark ( Cetorhinus maximus ), the world’s second largest fish (after the whale shark). The book opens in the late 1930s with the author, no longer able to endure a dull clerkship in London, beginning a small fishing business on the west coast of Scotland. His prey, the basking shark, could be 30 feet long and weigh as much as 6 tons. Watkins recounts an early m