| #476593 in Books | John McPhee | 2003-09-10 | 2003-09-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .33 x1.00 x6.86l,.85 | File Name: 0374528837 | 368 pages | The Founding Fish
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| McPhee is one of the greatest science/environmental writers of our time|By PHL_Rad|A really entertaining read that will leave you a whole lot more informed on this important fish + much more ... and also probably give the shad bug/inspire you to buy some shad darts on . McPhee is one of the greatest science/environmental writers of our time, and his sense of humor & passion de|From Publishers Weekly|In his newest (after Annals), McPhee leads readers out to the river-pole and lures in hand-to angle for American shad. McPhee knows where the fish are running, so to speak, and he opens with a tall tale about his long vigil with a giant r
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...
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