| Description |
x, 213 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 2009. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The turning point -- Home at last -- At Glamis -- Field mice for tea -- The start of a double life -- At Altries -- Drinking like a fish -- Living and learning -- To know the ocean blue -- To sea with the smolts -- Fat is a fishy issue -- Of bugs and brood stock -- The hydrographer's fish -- By Ebrie's bleak banks -- On lancelets, lampreys. and teleosts -- Children of the sun -- Of salmon and sea lords -- The real meaning of life -- The pilgrims. |
| Summary |
Richard Shelton combines memoir and deep scientific knowledge to reveal, from the salmon's point of view, both the riverine and marine worlds in which it lives. |
| Subject |
Atlantic salmon.
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Atlantic salmon -- Life cycles.
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Atlantic salmon -- Evolution.
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Aquatic ecology.
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| ISBN |
9781843547853 paperback |
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1843547856 paperback |
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