Research Catalog

Title

To sea and back : the heroic life of the Atlantic salmon. / Richard Shelton.

Author

Shelton, Richard

Publication

London : Atlantic, c2009.

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Details

Description

x, 213 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

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. This title 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.

Subject

• Atlantic salmon
• Atlantic salmon > Life cycles
• Aquatic ecology
• Salmo salar

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Turning Point -- Home at Last -- At Glamis -- Field Mice for Tea -- Start of a Double Life -- At Altries -- Drinking Like a Fish -- Living and Learning -- To Know the Ocean Blue -- To Sea with the Smolts -- Fat is a Fishy Issue -- Of Bugs and Brood Stock -- Hydrographer's Fish -- By Ebrie's Bleak Banks -- On Lancelets, Lampreys and Teleosts -- Children of the Sun -- Of Salmon and Sea Lords -- Real Meaning of Life -- Pilgrims.

ISBN

• 9781843547846 (hbk.)
• 1843547848 (hbk.)

OCLC

423598907

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library