Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Animals - Fish

" A] curiously edifying book." --The New York Times Book Review

"With the taut suspense of a spy novel, Voigt paints a vivid world of murder, black market deals, and habitat destruction surrounding a fish that's considered, ironically, to be a good-luck charm." --Discover

" An] immensely satisfying story, full of surprises and...

"These poems tell stories of the place where I live and the
place I love. These are poems that will touch you and make
you think. Many you will read over again."
--Marty Sherman, former editor of Flyfishing magazine,
and salesman for ClackaCraft Drift Boats
"Norman Maclean wrote that, 'Under the rocks are the
words, and some of the words are theirs.' This is the
ancestral place from which Scott Starbuck dipped his
hands and brought us poetry. This is the human condition
diffused like sunlight through water. Starbuck has shown
us...

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing as a quintessential experience of communion with nature belies the sport's long history of environmental manipulation, engineering, and, ultimately, transformation.

A fly-fishing enthusiast herself, Brown places the rise of recreational trout fishing in a local and...

The Arowana is the world's most costly aquarium fish. It is a tropical freshwater fish from the brackish swamps of Asia, the river basins of South America, and the pools and billabongs of Austrailia. There are numerous types of Arowanas, most of which can easily grow up to three feet long.

This fish is a savage predator that’s been around since the age of the dinosaurs and has remained unchanged, which is why some people call these fish “living fossils.” The Arowana is prized for its unique metallic scales; the bristles that bulge from its jaw; and its...

"From the first words in Hold This, Martin invites us into a universe of yearning and transformation, as the boy narrator shimmers into the body of a bird whose feet are 'letters' and whose wings allow him to ascend the mysterious reaches of a broad sky. Here, love and death contend within the confining frame of time. Mirrors may be both glass to reflect our questions, our desires, our fallibilities, and doors opening into a new vision of the world in which we are lucky enough to live. Full of feeling, but never sentimental, Martin beckons us to consider the deep questions even while...