La elocuencia de la sardina

As a child, Bill François was afraid of the sea. One day, walking along some rocks, he saw a light and discovered a sardine that, absent-minded, had approached the coast. The meeting was an epiphany. The deep sea began to exert a growing fascination on him, and the result is this delicious book in which fascinating episodes follow one another: the cod that discovered America, the school of herring that was about to unleash a war, the apparent immortality of eels, the adventures of Carl von Linné as a cataloger of marine species, the music of whales, the luminescence of jellyfish, the similarities between human beings and corals, lobsters as apprentice violinists, the friendship of three generations of a family with the killer whales and, of course, the eloquence of the sardine...