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| #140981 in Books | 2003-09-10 | 2003-09-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .33 x1.00 x6.86l,.85 | File type: PDF | 368 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Fish & History, McPhee-style! 5 Stars|By westlady|I am a John McPhee fan, for many reasons. His books are readable, and you learn a lot without ever feeling like you are just having facts thrown at you. He makes his subject, in this case a fish called a shad, interesting! In learning about this fish, you will also learn about early USA history, among other things. Who knew|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 ro
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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