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Founding Fish, The Paperback - 2003
by McPhee, John
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- Paperback
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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.
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Details
- Title Founding Fish, The
- Author McPhee, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st ptg.
- Condition Used - Book: Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
- Publication date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # 69615
- 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)
- Size 8vo.
- Category Sports & Recreation
- Library of Congress subjects American shad, Shad fishing - North America - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 597.45
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About this book
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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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.
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times, 09/14/2003, Page 28
