The Founding Fish

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706344
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis The Founding Fish by : John McPhee

Download or read book The Founding Fish written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.

The Founding Fish

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374528836
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (288 download)

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Book Synopsis The Founding Fish by : John McPhee

Download or read book The Founding Fish written by John McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the American shad traces its annual migrations and life cycle in both freshwater rivers and the ocean, focusing on those living in the Delaware River and discussing issues related to tidal power and catch-and-release campaigns.

The Founding Fish

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374104443
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Founding Fish written by John McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the American shad traces its annual migrations and life cycle in both freshwater rivers and the ocean, focusing on those living in the Delaware River and discussing issues related to tidal power and catch-and-release campaigns.

Cod

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369803
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Cod by : Mark Kurlansky

Download or read book Cod written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod -- frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. Cod is a charming tour of history with all its economic forces laid bare and a fish story embellished with great gastronomic detail. It is also a tragic tale of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once the cod's numbers were legendary. In this deceptively whimsical biography of a fish, Mark Kurlansky brings a thousand years of human civilization into captivating focus.

Gould's Book of Fish

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191991
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Gould's Book of Fish by : Richard Flanagan

Download or read book Gould's Book of Fish written by Richard Flanagan and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review—Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly—Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review—Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post Book World—Raves 2002 Chicago Tribune—Favorite Books of 2002 Christian Science Monitor—Best Books 2002 Publishers Weekly—Best Books of 2002 The Cleveland Plain Dealer—Year’s Best Books Minneapolis Star Tribune—Standout Books of 2002 Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould’s Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish.

Your Inner Fish

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307377164
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Your Inner Fish by : Neil Shubin

Download or read book Your Inner Fish written by Neil Shubin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.

Why Fish Don't Exist

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501160346
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Why Fish Don't Exist by : Lulu Miller

Download or read book Why Fish Don't Exist written by Lulu Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.

Tying the Founding Flies

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Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811714667
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis Tying the Founding Flies by : Mike Valla

Download or read book Tying the Founding Flies written by Mike Valla and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fly fishing has a rich heritage of "founding flies" that revolutionized the sport, yet many of these classic flies have fallen out of use. In this follow-up to The Founding Flies, Mike Valla includes detailed instructions to help anglers tie and fish these historic, effective patterns. • Features 21 classic fly patterns with step-by-step photo tutorials for tying them • Tips on the best way to fish the founding flies today • Includes a broad range of flies, from nymphs and streamers to drys and terrestrials

Running Silver

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149300123X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Running Silver by : John Waldman

Download or read book Running Silver written by John Waldman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That one could “walk drishod on the backs” of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of awe-inspiring numbers of spawners pushing their way upriver, the waters “running silver,” to complete life cycles that once replenished critical marine fisheries along the Eastern Seaboard. This is a hugely important, fascinating, and unique look at the fish of North America whose history and life-cycles and conservation challenges are poorly understood. Despite these primordial abundances, over the centuries these stocks were so stressed that virtually all are now severely depressed, with many biologically or commercially extinct and some simply forgotten. Running Silver will tell the story of the past, present and future of these sea-river fish. This important book will elevate public consciousness of the contrasts between the historical and the present to show the enormous legacy that has already been lost and to help inspire efforts to save what remains. Drawing on the author's thirty-year career as a scientist and educator with a passion for the native river fish of the North East, Running Silver tells the story of these endangered fish with a mix of research, historical accounts, anecdotes, personal experience, interviews, and images.

The Optimist

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982152516
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Optimist by : David Coggins

Download or read book The Optimist written by David Coggins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect fly fishing book for today's novice, enthusiastic amateur, as well as the devoted angler is part narration of the author's own angling obsessions and adventures, part practical how-to, and part meditation on a connection to the natural world.

Return of the Gar

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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415999
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Return of the Gar by : Mark Spitzer

Download or read book Return of the Gar written by Mark Spitzer and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alligator gar belongs to a family of fish that has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Its intimidating size and plethora of teeth have made it demonized throughout its range in North America, resulting in needless killing. Massive oil spills in its breeding range have not helped its population either. Interspersing science, folklore, history, and action-packed fishing narratives, Spitzer's empathy for and fascination with this air-breathing, armored fish provides for an entertaining odyssey that examines management efforts to preserve and propagate the alligator gar in the United States. Spitzer also travels to Central America, Thailand, and Mexico to assess the global gar situation. He reflects on what is and isn't working in compromised environments, then makes a case for conservation based on personal experience and a love for wildness for its own sake. This colorful portrait of the alligator gar can serve as a metaphor and measurement for the future of our biodiversity during a time of planetary crisis.

The Fish That Ate the Whale

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374299277
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fish That Ate the Whale by : Rich Cohen

Download or read book The Fish That Ate the Whale written by Rich Cohen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was gangly and penniless. When he died in New Orleans 69 years later, he was among the richest men in the world. He conquered the United Fruit Company, and is a symbol of the best and worst of the United States.

The Price of Fish

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857889517
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Book Synopsis The Price of Fish by : Michael Mainelli

Download or read book The Price of Fish written by Michael Mainelli and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founders of London's leading think tank challenge readers to look at economic analysis in a different way.

Billion-Dollar Fish

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679217X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Billion-Dollar Fish by : Kevin M. Bailey

Download or read book Billion-Dollar Fish written by Kevin M. Bailey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America--the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble: in the last few years, the pollock population has declined by more than half, and some scientists are predicting the fishery's eventual collapse. Crucial to understanding the pollock fishery, he shows, is recognizing what aspects of its natural history make pollock so very desirable to fish, while at the same time making it resilient, yet highly vulnerable to overfishing. Bailey delves into the science, politics, and economics surrounding Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea, detailing the development of the fishery, the various political machinations that have led to its current management, and, perhaps most important, its impending demise. He approaches his subject from multiple angles, bringing in the perspectives of fishermen, politicians, environmentalists, and biologists, and drawing on revealing interviews with players who range from Greenpeace activists to fishing industry lawyers."--Amazon.

Sport Fish of Fresh Water

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Publisher : Florida Sports Press
ISBN 13 : 9780936240237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Sport Fish of Fresh Water by : Vic Dunaway

Download or read book Sport Fish of Fresh Water written by Vic Dunaway and published by Florida Sports Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is this fish? Is it good to eat? Is it a record? Answers to these common questions, plus many others, are finally answered in this new book by Florida Sportsman Senior Editor Vic Dunaway"--Page 4 of cover.

Encounters with the Archdruid

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708630
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Encounters with the Archdruid by : John McPhee

Download or read book Encounters with the Archdruid written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1977-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

Sport Fish of the Pacific

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Publisher : Florida Sportsman
ISBN 13 : 9780936240282
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Sport Fish of the Pacific by : Vic Dunaway

Download or read book Sport Fish of the Pacific written by Vic Dunaway and published by Florida Sportsman. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answer to these common questions, plus many others, are finally answered in this new book by Florida Sportsman Senior Editor Vic Dunaway.