{"product_id":"9781472129079","title":"Oyster Isles : A Journey Through Britain and Ireland's Oysters","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Groves, Bobby, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 27\/08\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages, 2x 8pp plate sections,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Constable,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Sea life \u0026amp; the seashore, Travel writing\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781472129079\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eThe Great British oyster is deeply embedded in our geographical, historical and socio-cultural landscape. Five-thousand-year-old oyster shells have been discovered in the northern reaches of Scotland, and oyster shells are littered along the extinct riverbeds deep beneath the London of today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA highly prized delicacy of the Romans, the oyster has always been a class leveller: an everyman food of the poor during the Victorian age to a food of decadence during the twentieth century. It is a superfood; a biological water meter; an ecological superpower. The oyster card, 'the world is your oyster' - it has even crept into our language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBobby Groves, Head of Oysters at the Chiltern Firehouse, takes us on a wonderful journey of the British oyster, a five-thousand-mile motorcycle odyssey of Britain's spectacular coastlines. He vividly brings to life this strange and marvellous creature, shining a light on its rich and vibrant history, its cultural impact and ecological importance as well as those oyster folk who work so hard to protect them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart travelogue, part social history, Oyster Isles is a celebration of the much-loved yet much-misunderstood British oyster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35547730542745,"sku":"9781472129079","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781472129079.jpg?v=1601400041","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781472129079","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}