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Salmon

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Peter Coates
224 pages, 100 illustrations, 25 in colour
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Salmon
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  • Salmon ISBN: 9781861892959 Paperback Oct 2006 Out of Print #161036
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About this book

Every year, wild salmon travel hundreds of miles upstream. They fight fierce river currents, leap over rocks and small waterfalls, and die by the thousands of starvation, disease and exposure to cold. Even if they surmount these obstacles the fish risk becoming dinner for hungry predators like bears, birds and humans. Guided by a keen sense of smell, the survivors travel to their original hatching grounds, where they breed, spawn and die in a short space of time.

Inspired by the remarkable homing instinct of one of the natural world's greatest wonders, we have selected the salmon as a symbol of fortitude, fecundity, self-sacrifice, loyalty to place and unwavering pursuit of destiny. Yet the salmon has become a deeply paradoxical and controversial creature. Celebrated for centuries as the noblest of fish, it is now just as likely to be deplored as the ignoble product of the aquatic equivalent of battery farming.

Salmon examines the natural history of the fish and looks at it from the perspectives of those who have studied it, eaten it, pursued it, fought over it, pondered its meaning and absorbed it into culture and art. This innovative biography of a species encompasses the salmon's evolutionary, ecological and human stories, ranging from Nova Scotia to Norway and from Korea to California, and stretching from prehistory to the future. Anyone who has ever eaten or tried to catch one will want to read the book that is the first to serve up the `compleat' salmon.

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Peter Coates is Reader in American and Environmental History at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy (1991) and Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times (1998) and co-author of Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa (1995).

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Peter Coates
224 pages, 100 illustrations, 25 in colour
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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an engagingly written and handsomely produced account of a phenomenal fish. The Independent The words flow as easily and clearly as a well-oxygenated salmon stream and the text is illustrated with a wide variety of excellent photographs; including, surprisingly, a few of semi-naked beauties modelling attire made entirely out of salmon skin ... the book is first class and a great read. I heartily recommend it to all of you who, as I do, love and revere the "King of Fish". Fly Fishing & Fly Tying

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