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Title details for Salmon by Mark Kurlansky - Available

Salmon

A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate

by Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon.
During his research Kurlansky traveled widely and observed salmon and those who both pursue and protect them in the Pacific and the Atlantic, in Ireland, Norway, Iceland, Japan, and even the robust but not as frequently visited Kamchatka Peninsula. This world tour reveals an eras-long history of man’s misdirected attempts to manipulate salmon and its environments for his own benefit and gain, whether for entertainment or to harvest food.
In addition, Kurlansky’s research shows that all over the world these fish, uniquely connected to both marine and terrestrial ecology as well as fresh and salt water, are a natural barometer for the health of the planet. He documents that for centuries man’s greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, are evidenced in the sensitive life cycle of salmon.
Kurlansky’s insightful conclusion is that the only way to save salmon is to save the planet and, at the same time, the only way to save the planet is to save the mighty, heroic salmon.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Patagonia

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 3, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593293850
      • File size: 306383 KB
      • Duration: 10:38:17

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Mark Kurlansky narrates his powerful audiobook straightforwardly. His narrating style sounds hewn from his experience teaching and giving readings. The award-winning and renowned journalist's tone and cadence reflect his background. In this appreciation of one of the world's most athletic and iconic fish, he describes how mankind and this anadromous wonder have coexisted--the salmon rarely the better for human intervention. Despite climate change, urbanization, industrialization, and the destruction of Atlantic and Pacific salmons' habitat, Sockeye, king, Coho, among others, still live and die in great numbers in places like Alaska and eastern Russia. Kurlansky calls the salmon's fate a barometer for the planet's future. If ever a noble species needed a voice, it is the salmon; in Mark Kurlansky, it has found its champion. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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