Lines in the Water: Nature and culture at Lake Titicaca by Benjamin Orlove, University of California Press, £13.95, ISBN 0520229592 Reviewed by Daniel Pauly
SWATHED in legend and fishing nets, Lake Titicaca is the star of Benjamin Orlove’s Lines in the Water. It’s a well-written book and an excellent source of facts for anyone interested in the fisherfolk and fisheries of the lake, and how the former have managed to maintain the latter in spite of centuries of pressure from outside.
But Orlove reminds me of the Mork and Mindy TV series from the 1970s. Mork, you may recall, was…
