Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Ogilvy, Joseph
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Ogilvy, Joseph

Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State

"Powerful nature writing . . . a lively story about the consequences of rapacious capitalism." -LOS ANGELES...
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Author: Joseph Ogilvy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Ogilvy, Joseph

Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State

$38.40
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Ogilvy, Joseph

Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State

$38.40
Author: Joseph Ogilvy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"Powerful nature writing . . . a lively story about the consequences of rapacious capitalism." -LOS ANGELES TIMES
"You'll never look at a can of tuna the same way again." -MALCOM HARRIS, nationally bestselling author of Palo Alto

The hidden story of the California Coast, told through generations of immigrants, surges of industry, and three marine species caught in the dragnet of human history.

Look west from San Francisco or Monterey, past the surfers and cargo ships. This is the California Current, 1,900 miles of the most productive waters on earth. It was here that eighteenth-century locals encountered frisbee-sized abalone mollusks, sardine schools the size of buses, and Yellowfin tuna, each the size of a man. But it was not to last.

Over the next three centuries, the abalone, sardine, and tuna were swept into the violent undertow of history. Their species became resources. Fishing and hunting drove the Spanish-Russian territory battle of the eighteenth century, California's virulently racist first "conservation" laws in the 19th, and an ad campaign that kept America fed on just-like-chicken canned goods in the 20th. Along the way, they became drivers of geopolitical competition, catalysts for the dramatic rise and fall of Cannery Row aristocracy, and even surly muses for John Steinbeck and Fritz Lang.

Collapsing the distinctions between human and natural history, Tin Can Coast brings the cautionary tale of the California shore to life.

Author: Joseph Ogilvy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 07/21/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781639736812


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/11/2026
Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 98
Booklist 06/01/2026

About the Author
Joseph Oglivy is a writer and chef. After graduating from Oxford University, he spent several years working in restaurants in both London and Texas, while writing on his days off. His experience in kitchens led him to research involving the tangled human and ecological history of food. This is his first book.
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