num_pages: 288
description: Brings readers inside the insular world of the tonnara--the ritual trapping and killing of bluefin tuna--enacted by the fishermen of a Sicilian fishing village since the Stone Age. Reprint.
language: English
title: Mattanza: The Ancient Sicilian Ritual of Bluefin Tuna Fishing
titlecomplete: Mattanza: The Ancient Sicilian Ritual of Bluefin Tuna Fishing
genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Italy
ratings_count: 87
places: Sicily, Favignana, Sicily
publisher: Penguin Books