Wild Books → fishing → Narrative Nonfiction
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.
Buy at Bookshop.org
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published 2002
Related Wild Words
hatch wave train syzygy SIZ-ih-jee ferry seep SEEP finger lake
You Might Also Like
The Tecate Journals: Seventy Days on the Rio Grande
The Tecate Journals: Seventy Days on the Rio Grande
Keith Bowden
 River Town
River Town
Peter Hessler
 The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
John Wesley Powell
 Platte River
Platte River
Rick Bass
###
Back to Wild Books