Combining natural history with beguiling autobiographical and
historical narrative, To Sea and Back is a dazzling portrait of a
fish whose story is closely intertwined with our own.
'Indispensable and powerful... To Sea and Back mingles history with
biography and science... Shelton writes with a poet's ear... A
writer to be prized.'-- Tom Adair, Scotsman The Atlantic salmon is
an extraordinary and mysterious fish. In To Sea and Back, Richard
Shelton combines memoir and deep scientific knowledge to reveal,
from the salmon's point of view, both the riverine and marine
worlds in which it lives. He explores this iconic fish's journey to
reach its feeding grounds in the northern oceans before making the
return over thousands of miles to the burns of its birth to
reproduce. Along the way, Shelton describes the feats of
exploration that gave us our first real understanding of the
oceans, 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.
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