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Return to the River

The Classic Story of the Chinook Run and of the Men Who Fish It

Foreword by Jay Cassell
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, New York, NY, United States
Published: 24th Nov 2016
Dimensions: w 140mm h 210mm d 23mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN-10: 1510713999
ISBN-13: 9781510713994
Barcode No: 9781510713994
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Synopsis
Return to the River remains one of the finest books ever written about the salmon and has won its place as an angler's and naturalist's classic. Drawn back again to spawn in the stream that hatched them, the deep-sea salmon, the great silver chinooks, return as inevitably as the September rains. Return to the River captures the whole sweep of the chinook migration in every significant detail: the departure seaward of the millions of small fry in the spring of the second year, the saltwater life of the free-swimming schools in the deeps beyond Puget Sound, the later return of the survivors sixty- and eighty-pounders that leap against every obstacle, striving to complete their lives at last among upland shallows barely deep enough to contain them. Roderick Haig-Brown, observing with the trained eye of the naturalist what he records with a novelist's skill, here sets forth the dramatic life history of one salmon from her hatching through her mating the fulfillment of her life cycle. "The supple, rapid style, vigorous as the great fish itself," wrote Joseph Henry Jackson in the San Francisco Chronicle, "makes this account as easy reading as fiction." Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, cat fish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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"A perfect book of its kind!"--The New Yorker

"One of the 20th century's most gifted angling writers."--New York Times

"The supple, rapid style, vigorous as the great fish itself, makes this account as easy reading as any fiction."--San Francisco Chronicle "A perfect book of its kind!"--The New Yorker

"One of the 20th century's most gifted angling writers."--New York Times

"The supple, rapid style, vigorous as the great fish itself, makes this account as easy reading as any fiction."--San Francisco Chronicle