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The Founding Fish

The Founding Fish

John McPhee
McPhee on shad — the fish that fed the Continental Army, filled the rivers of the eastern seaboard, and is now mostly forgotten. Only McPhee could make a fish biography this compelling.
fishing River & Water Narrative Nonfiction Eastern U.S.
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Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published 2002
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