The Founding Fish - Hardcover

Mcphee, John

 
9780374104443: The Founding Fish
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374104441 ISBN 13: 9780374104443
Verlag: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

A natural study of the American shad traces its annual migrations and life cycle in both freshwater rivers and the ocean, focusing in particular on those living in the Delaware River and discussing issues related to tidal power and catch-and-release campaigns. 75,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Verlag
FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374104441
ISBN 13 
9780374104443
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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