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(0)Roderick Haig-Brown
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
1946
Language
English
Description
Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it-its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great sport.
Month by month, he takes you from river to river, down at last to the saltwater and the sea: in January, searching for the steelhead in the dark, cold water; in May, fishing...
Author
Publisher
Lyons & Burford
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Return to the River remains one of the finest books ever written about the salmon and has won its place as an angler's and naturalist's classic.
Drawn back again to spawn in the stream that hatched them, the deep-sea salmon, the great silver chinooks, return as inevitably as the September rains. Return to the River captures the whole sweep of the chinook migration in every significant detail: the departure seaward of the millions of small fry in the...