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 Author Name: John McPhee
Title: THE AMERICAN SHAD: SELECTIONS FROM "THE FOUNDING FISH"
Type: BOOK
Publisher: MEADOW RUN PRESS INC.
ISBN Number: 1886967148 / 9781886967144
Seller ID: 1061451
An elegant, beautifully illustrated edition. The Pulitzer Prize winning author is a national treasure--the author of 26 books. With vivid & spirited prose, McPhee masterfully weaves together the shad's natural history, his own angling history with the fish, along with the history of the early American settlers & the critical importance of this fish to their very existence. An Edition of 500 Copies Signed by the Author; 6x9 inches, 88 pgs.
'We are pleased to announce this collection of pieces from John McPhee's The Founding Fish in an elegant, beautifully illustrated Meadow Run Press edition. The Pulitzer Prize winning author is a national treasure--the author of twenty-six books. With vivid and spirited prose, McPhee masterfully weaves together the shad's natural history, his own angling history with the fish, along with the history of the early American settlers and the critical importance of this fish to their very existence.
This is a large and compelling story. The misery and hunger of George Washington's troops at Valley Forge are palpable through McPhee's pen, as is their joy and salvation in the annual shad migration up the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Early Philadelphia comes alive with vendor's shouts of "Shad-e-o! Shad-e-o!" announcing newly-arrived fish. And with fly rod in hand, the author travels to the Miramichi in advance of the Atlantic salmon run for some remarkable, memorable shad fishing--unknown to most fly fishermen.
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