Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Founding Fish

0/5 ( ratings)

John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" . His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2002

ISBN 13: 9780374528836

The Founding Fish

0/5 ( ratings)

John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" . His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2002

ISBN 13: 9780374528836

More books from John McPhee

Coming Into the Country

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Encounters with the Archdruid

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Control of Nature

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Annals of the Former World

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Basin and Range

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Pine Barrens

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

Oranges

Levels of the Game

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

La Place De La Concorde Suisse

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Arthur Ashe On Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Alaska: Images of the Country

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Maya Lin: Topologies

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience

Reader's Digest Condensed Books; Winter 1967, Volume 68: The Town and Dr. Moore / The Captain / Fight from a Firing Wall / The Headmaster / I Start Counting

The Second John McPhee Reader (John McPhee Reader, #2)

Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World Book 1)

Rate this book!

Write a review?