Combining exquisite natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, a portrait of a fish whosestory is closely intertwined with our ownThe Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. Here, Richard Shelton combines memoir and deep scientific knowledge to reveal, from the salmon's point of view, both the riverine and marine worlds in which it lives. He explores this iconic fish's journey to reach its feeding grounds in the northern oceans before making the return over thousands of miles to thebrooks of its birth to reproduce. Along the way, Shelton...
Combining exquisite natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, a portrait of a fish whosestory is closely intertwined w...