{"product_id":"9780451493484","title":"Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. It’s a place of small villages, where the art of fishing, though evolving, is still practiced in traditional ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the great depths surrounding these islands lurks the infamous Greenland shark. At twenty-four feet in length and weighing more than a ton, it is truly a beast to behold. But the shark is not known just for its size: Its meat contains a toxin that, when consumed, has been known to make people drunk and hallucinatory. \u003ci\u003eShark Drunk\u003c\/i\u003e is the true story of two friends, the author and the eccentric artist Hugo Aasjord, as they embark on a wild pursuit of the famed creature—all from a tiny rubber boat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether they tackle existential questions and encounter the world’s most powerful maelstrom as they attempt to understand the ocean from every possible angle, drawing on poetry, science, history, ecology, mythology, and their own—sometimes intoxicated—observations, meanwhile pursuing the elusive Greenland shark. By turns thrilling, wise, and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eShark Drunk \u003c\/i\u003eis a celebration of adventure, marine life, and, above all, friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Norwegian Brage Prize 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Norwegian Reine Ord Prize at Lofoten International Literature Festival 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022151827696,"sku":"9780451493484","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780451493484_p0.jpg?v=1763704749","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780451493484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}