Where Salmon Come to Die: An Autumn on Alaska's Raincoast (The Pruett Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087108855X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A timeless spirit of fascination with nature's wonders." according to John F. Rohe. We read reports of declining fish stocks, but seldom peerbehind the human drama in gathering these statistics. LeonKolankiewicz opens a window to the distant, mysterious, isolated and sometimes hostile world of data collectors on Alaska's raincoast in autumn. Migratory habits of spawning salmon never evolved to fit neatly within the convenience of Alaska's Department of Fish and Game workers. The salmons' . Detlef Buettner (Detleffish@aol.com) said An account of life in a remote fieldcamp in Southeast Alaska. 'Where Salmon come to die' gives an accurate account of what life is like in a remote Southeast Alaska (Department of Fish and Game) fieldcamp. This book contains wonderful desciptions of the pristine beauty of the land and its inhabitants; a beauty which has been lost in many other developped places. The accounts are based on the authors diary and on correspondences with his family. I verify that the stor
A unique environmental adventure, ""This sparse chronicle of a summer-to-early-winter sojourn in the bush on a remote island in Alaska is splendid reading It is also a celebration of wilderness and a sensitive man's reaction to it.""