The Founding Fish
John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing fo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-52883-6
- EAN: 9780374528836
- Produktnummer: 19443336
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.3 cm 386 g
- Auflage: 1994
- Gewicht: 386
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