The Salmon.
by Roderick Haig-Brown
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Citrus Heights, California, United States
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About This Item
Ottawa. Environment Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service. 1974. First edition. Large Quarto (12 ½ x 8). 79 pp. Stunning color plates showing salmon as a valuable natural resource, especially so for Canadas aboriginal peoples who depend on the annual return of spawning salmon for their existence. There are colored maps showing the routes salmon travel during their time at sea. Haig-Browns compassionate and thoughtful text celebrates salmon and pleads for their continued return to their home rivers. ////// "Pacific Salmon - River-born fugitives, red muscled under sheathing silver - Alive with lights of oceans changing colours, - The range of deeps and distances through wild salt years - Has gathered the seas plenty into your perfection. - Fullness is the long return from dark depths / Rendering toll of itself to the searching nets - Surging on to strife on brilliant gravel shallows - that opened long ago behind the failing ice. - In violence over gravel, under the burn of fall, - Fullness spends itself, thrusting forth new life - To nurse in the streams flow. The old life, - Used utterly, yields itself among the river rocks of home. - Roderick Haig-Brown." //////. The book is bound in coarse brown cloth with Bill Reids Haida Salmon printed on a paper label on the front cover, brown titling label printed in gilt on the spine. A nice book. In fine condition. .
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- Bookseller
- Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011137
- Title
- The Salmon.
- Author
- Roderick Haig-Brown
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
Terms of Sale
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
For questions please telephone 916.728.5019. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. Return any book for any reason within 10 days after receiving it and your money will be promptly returned. All returned books must be in same condition in which they were sent. Reciprocal terms to professional members of the trade. California residents please add 7.75% sales tax.
About the Seller
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Biblio member since 2008
Citrus Heights, California
About Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Bruce Cave Fine Books specializes in quality fishing books – particularly fly fishing for trout, steelhead, Pacific and Atlantic salmon, striped, black, and smallmouth bass plus any other fish that’ll eat a well-dressed fly; fresh and salt water fishing anywhere on the planet, ranging from picky rainbows in the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester in Northern California to five hundred pound river monsters at Cao Lh in the Mekong Delta. That’s me in the top photo at age 10 in 1957 on the steps of our now gone cabin at Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor (it was elegant) – I’m holding the largest trout I’ve ever caught (seven pounds), and needed my grandfather’s helping hand to do it; that fish caught my imagination. And that’s me in the second photo taken in late October 2014 on the same cabin steps, 57 years later, holding an imaginary fish. Between the intervening years I realized that reading about fishing could be nearly as good as fishing itself. I also came to know that fly fishing can be a metaphor for life; there are those moments in fishing that require neither stream nor fish, and sometimes the least important thing about fly fishing is the fishing. Now it’s catch and release for the most part – time spent in rivers and lakes together with age encourages it. Fly fishing is timeless; fishermen aren’t. I think Robert Traver had it right: I fish ‘because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid’; and I ‘don’t regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.' A life of fly fishing is beautiful and simple. I’m always interested in purchasing good books, booklets, pamphlets, catalogues, brochures and other ephemera on these subjects and encourage you to either email me at brucecave@comcast.net or telephone 916.728.5019. Sincerely, Bruce Cave.
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