Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily.Theresa Maggio, on the other hand, describes--very vividly--just one place --an island off the coast of Sicily--and the human lives that intertwine with the bluefin tuna tuna or tunny, game and food fishes, the largest members of the family Scombridae (mackerel family) and closely related to the albacore and bonito. They have streamlined bodies with two fins, and five or more finlets on the back. caught by these fisherfolk. In Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily Sicily (sĭs`ĭlē), Ital. Sicilia, region (1991 pop. 4,966,386), 9,925 sq mi (25,706 sq km), S Italy, mainly situated on the island of Sicily, which is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west and south, by the Ionian Sea on the (Perseus Perseus, in Greek mythology Perseus (pûr`sēəs, –s  s), in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Danaë. Books, $25), you'll you'll Contraction of you will. you'll you will or you shall you'll will travel with Maggio to the island of Favignana, where for 13 years she witnesses the harvesting of the tuna, a ritual which may soon fall victim, like the fish themselves, to the pressures of a modern industry. --J.B. |
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