Gould's Book Of Fish - Softcover

A seamless masterpiece * Peter Carty, Independent on Sunday * I urge you to read it * Robert MacFarlane, Observer * A truly great book that will be read by serious people long after most of the literary fiction of our time is forgotten * Richard Holloway, Sunday Herald * A masterpiece * John Burnside, The Times * Hugely original * Alex Clark, The Guardian * Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish the way Ulysses is a novel about the events of a single day * Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * A strange and amazing book * Alex Linklater, Prospect *

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in van Dieman's land who fell in love with a black woman.