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The Founding Fish

The Founding Fish

The Founding Fish
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The Founding Fish

by John McPhee

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0374104441
ISBN 13
9780374104443
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002-10-13. Hardcover. Used:Good.

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McPhee’s twenty-sixth book is a fascinating example of personal history, natural history, and American history in descending order. Every spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima leave the ocean in groups of thousands and run distances upriver to spawn.  John McPhee, a shad fisherman himself, recounts the shad’s role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists during which he takes instruction in the making of the darts from a master of the art, fishes in various North American rivers, and cooks shad in a variety of ways. In the words of Bill Pride for The Denver post, 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 "

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Title
The Founding Fish
Author
John McPhee
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used:Good
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ISBN 10
0374104441
ISBN 13
9780374104443
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2002-10-13

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