To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon - Couverture rigide

Shelton, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843547848 ISBN 13 : 9781843547846

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. For centuries mankind has wondered how it is able to survive both in fresh and salt water and how it navigates thousands of miles to feeding grounds in the northern oceans before returning to the burns of its birth to reproduce.

Richard Shelton combines personal memoir and science to reveal the riverine and marine worlds from the salmon's point of view. He explores the salmon's life cycle and places the fish in its evolutionary context - one that is much closer to man's than we might imagine. Along the way, he describes the feat of exploration that gave us our first real understanding of the oceans, introduces the great Victorian naturalist Frank Buckland, and shows how this iconic fish is a vital indicator of the health of our rivers and oceans. Above all, To Sea and Back is the story of Richard Shelton's lifelong passion for the sea and his attempt to solve the perennial enigmas of the salmon's secret life.

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À propos de l'auteur

RICHARD SHELTON headed the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory at Pitlochry from 1982 to 2001. He is currently Research Director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews. He lives in Perthshire with his wife Freda. The Longshoreman was published by Atlantic Books in 2004.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843547848
• ISBN 13: 9781843547846
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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