- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Books; First Edition edition (1 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843547848
- ISBN-13: 978-1843547846
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"'Shelton writes of fish with the pen of a poet... The beauties and oddities of the shoreline and the marine world are brought before our eyes in vivid colour and with scientific precision.' Margaret Drabble on The Longshoreman"
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This is the perfect Christmas gift for people interested in the natural world. 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. It is suitable for fans of Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin, Mark Cocker, Nicholas Crane, Philip Hoare's "Leviathan", Mark Kurlansky's "Cod" and Richard Shelton's "The Longshoreman", as well as fishing enthusiasts.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A scientific and romantic delight,
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This review is from: To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon (Hardcover)
This book is a delight to read, the author's love and knowledge of the salmo salar is second to none and his scientific knowledege is beautifully and poetically put across in this book. There are a lot of gaps in our knowledege of the salmon's life cycle especially in its aceanic phase and this book fills in some (but not all) of them.There are sections on the romance of the salmon, the "fishy" stories and descriptions and drawings of some of the flies that anglers might use to attract these mighty creatures as well as more salutory tales on the industrialisation of salmon farming and the over fishing in many rivers which have lost their once plentiful presence. \it also offers a history of the study of not just salmon but other fish as well. ultimately this is an optimistic book and one which adds to the growing number of essential "nature" reads although this one does have a significant "scientific" slant. This is an interesting and diverting story. BTW this should be a review of the paperback edition but that seems to have been "hijacked" by Night Train to Lisbon, possibly because that book is published by Atlantic. Anyone any idea how to rectify this?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Book Worth Buying,
This review is from: To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon (Hardcover)
As a keen salmon fisher, I am always interested in books that will give me a bit more information on the subject matter. Most of the books out there say much the same thing but in different ways, however "To Sea and Back"approaches it in a different way. Not to give too much away, it starts by describing from a salmon's view point what it is like to return to the river and even to take an anglers fly, be played and returned. It fills in a few gaps, e.g. explains the purpose of the adipose fin, (the small and insignificant fin in front of the tail). Buy it, you won't be disappointed.
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The Heroic Journey,
This review is from: To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon (Paperback)
This marvellous book has enthralled my brother and some of my best friends - with whom have fished for 40 - 50 years!I am already diaposed to buy it for other (angler)friends.The book is an utter delight - cannot commend it highly enough.I feel I should write to the Author to tell him what a piece of Work it is.
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