To Sea and Back by Richard Shelton
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 and how it navigates thousands of miles to feeding grounds in the northern oceans before returning to the burns of its birth to reproduce. Richard Shelton combines personal memoir and science to reveal the riverine and marine worlds from the salmon's point of view. He 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. Along the way, he describes the feat of exploration that gave us our first real understanding of the oceans, introduces the great Victorian naturalist Frank Buckland, and shows how this iconic fish is a vital indicator of the health of our rivers and oceans. Above all, To Sea and Back is the story of Richard Shelton's lifelong passion for the sea and his attempt to solve the perennial enigmas of the salmon's secret life.
'Shelton writes of fish with the pen of a poet.. The beauties and oddities of the shoreline and the marine world are brought before our eyes in vivid colour and with scientific precision.' Margaret Drabble on The Longshoreman
Richard Shelton headed the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory at Pitlochry from 1982 to 2001. He is currently Research Director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust and Chairman of the Buckland Foundation. He lives in Fife. His first book, The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge, was published by Atlantic Books in 2004 to great critical acclaim.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843547846 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843547848 |
| Title | To Sea and Back |
| Author | Richard Shelton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2009-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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