 Go to the United States  Browse other Fishing
 The American shad--a species beloved of sportsmen since George Washington--provides the remarkable focus of this book, its every specimen carrying its autobiography within its scales and coursing through the water routes of U.S. political history. McPhee profiles and travels with a fish behaviorist, an aquaculturist, and several fly fishermen, discussing the ethical matters of tidal power and catch-and-release campaigns, all the while telling the story of the increasingly revelatory role that shad has played in the history of the continent. He follows and studies the fish from Maritime Canada to the Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo in Alabama, uncovering its unique connections to Thoreau, Thomas Eakins, and John Wilkes Booth.  Paperback 368 pages - 5" x 8" - (9/03)
ZN4441 The Founding Fish $14.00
|
|
