The Dying Fish: A Sojourn to the Source - Couverture souple

Keith, Cedric C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1532790597 ISBN 13 : 9781532790591

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"A delighful discovery: highly original, entertaining, and often informative, written by a new talent on the scene. This book is highly recommended."
- Joseph L. Bast, President, The Heartland Institute

"An inspired look at the world of the native brook trout."
- Doug Stange, Editor-in-Chief, In-Fisherman

"Cedric Keith's solo adventure over the entire range of the eastern brook trout is both high adventure and a startlingly high-minded quest after ideas."
- Dr. Jack Kohl, Pianist and Author, That Iron String

The Dying Fish is a story about a long walk in the woods, totaling more than 4,000 miles, in pursuit of native brook trout and a better understanding of their world. But it's also, inescapably, the story of the person who took that walk. Cedric Keith begins this quest in his humble urban home but takes himself to a higher place in The Dying Fish, a work that transitions radically from beginning to end.

Lacking the know-it-all quality of too many outdoor texts, you'll learn along with Cedric about modern trail life as he begins finding his way from Georgia back to Pennsylvania and points further north. Learning to hike and live in the wild had to come first, before investigation of the brook trout, and The Dying Fish chronicles that process instead of assuming it.

You'll encounter Salvelinus fontinalis on intimate terms, beginning with the vestige persisting south of the Smoky Mountains and ending with the trout of dreams inhabiting the wilds of New England. The reader cannot finish the story without gaining an enhanced perspective on the ecology of the species and the diversity of populations from south to north. You will come to know where the brook trout persist, where they don’t and why.

As Cedric travels on toward and into the New England mountains, the book also rises to new heights, asking more substantial questions about the environment, our society and us as individuals, in keeping with the story of a lone hiker. If the state of the environment is as we've been led to believe, then why are the brook trout and their wilderness returning with a vengeance?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cedric Keith walked more than four thousand miles between 2007 and 2011, through the wildest places remaining in the east, from Georgia to New Brunswick, Canada on an environmental crusade. Subsequently, he produced The Dying Fish, an account of his observations of native brook trout within a resurgent forest biome. Cedric is a self-described "nobody," or "no one of consequence," while hovering on the periphery of academia, a preferred urban habitat. Cedric eschewed formal education beyond high school, feeling uninspired by the state of modern institutions and by the state of tuition. Much of his life was spent living in corners of eastern North America from Newfoundland to south Florida, looking at the aquatic world and doing some reading. This is also his full CV. In 2007 life picked up momentum when Cedric walked away from a menial job in Pittsburgh, took a bus to Georgia and began walking north, imbued with great purpose by a study appearing to show drastic decline in populations of our native eastern trout, Salvelinus fontinalis. Driven by a compulsion to approach places others don't and to find genuinely remote habitat, if there was any to be found, he used hundreds of trails to wend his way to Moosehead Lake, Maine, where he began three months of paddling through the wildest places and back to the tiny pond in the north woods where the aquatic obsession had begun. Along the way, Cedric found that all was not as commonly advertised for the eastern forest nor for his species of concern. Cedric currently resides in Pittsburgh, works in property management, visits underappreciated backwaters of the east and writes about it all.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1532790597
• ISBN 13: 9781532790591
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 538
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg