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100 1 $aMcPhee, John,$d1931-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076613
245 14 $aThe founding fish /$cJohn McPhee.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2002.
263 $a0210
300 $a358 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"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."".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aPlanked 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.
650 0 $aAmerican shad.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004419
650 0 $aShad fishing$zNorth America$xHistory.
852 00 $bmil$hQL638.C64$iM4 2002
852 00 $bjou$hQL638.C64$iM4 2002