The Founding Fish Paperback - 2003
by John McPhee
Lauded as "a fishing classic" ("The Economist") upon its publication in hardcover, McPhee's 26th book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume.
About this book
First line
I hadn't been a shad fisherman all my days, only seven years, on the May evening when this story begins-in a johnboat, flat and square, anchored in heavy current by the bridge in Lambertville, on the wall of the eddy below the fourth pier.
First Edition Identification
This book was first published in 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. This book is octavo with beige boards, black lettering on the spine, and a colorful dust jacket depicting shad by Sherman F. Denton.
Details
- Title The Founding Fish
- Author John McPhee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Date 2003-09-10
- ISBN 9780374528836 / 0374528837
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects American shad, Shad fishing - North America - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 597.45
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Citations
- New York Times, 09/14/2003, Page 28
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