An edition of The Founding Fish (2002)

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An edition of The Founding Fish (2002)

The founding fish

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"The Founding Fish, John McPhee's twenty-sixth book, is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. McPhee is a shad fisherman. He waits all year for the short spring season when delicious American shad - Alosa sapidissima - leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run up rivers heroic distances to spawn. He approaches them with a catch-and-eat philosophy. After all, their specific name means "most savory."".

"McPhee presents his obsession in bold and spirited prose, laced with humor. His research illuminates the sometimes surprising relevance of this fish in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, and its unique appeal to imaginative historians. George Washington was a commercial shad fisherman - in 1771, he caught 7,760 American shad. The fish had a cameo role in the lives of Henry David Thoreau and John Wilkes Booth.

Planked shad (shad nailed to a board and broiled before an open fire) was invented by the Colony in Schuylkill, a Philadelphia fishing club founded in 1732, which now considers itself the fourteenth of the fifty-one united states."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
358

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Cover of: The Founding Fish
The Founding Fish
September 10, 2003, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: The Founding Fish
The Founding Fish
October 13, 2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: The founding fish
The founding fish
2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English

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Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
QL638.C64M4 2002, QL638.C64 M4 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
358 p.
Number of pages
358

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23246896M
Internet Archive
foundingfish00mcph
ISBN 10
0374104441
LCCN
2002025012
OCLC/WorldCat
49558590
Library Thing
269236
Goodreads
1670845

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