Return To The River: A Story Of The Chinook Run. by Haig-Brown, Roderick L - 1941

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Globe Pequot Press, The, 1997. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Globe Pequot Press, The, 1997. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Return to the River remains one of the finest books ever written about the salmon and has won its place as an angler's and naturalist's classic.Drawn back again to spawn in the stream that hatched them, the deep-sea salmon, the great silver chinooks, return as inevitably as the September rains. Return to the River captures the whole sweep of the chinook migration in every significant detail: the departure seaward of the millions of small fry in the spring of the second year, the saltwater life of the free-swimming schools in the deeps beyond Puget Sound, the later return of the survivors—sixty- and eighty-pounders that leap against every obstacle, striving to complete their lives at last among upland shallows barely deep enough to contain them.Roderick Haig-Brown, observing with the trained eye of the naturalist what he records with a novelist's skill, here sets forth the dramatic life history of one salmon from her hatching through her mating—the fulfillment of her life cycle."The supple, rapid… Read More

Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart, 1946. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. b/w Illustration. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In color pictorial jacket, 8vo, 248pp. (light shelfwear to extremities, sm. nicks to jacket at top edge).

NY: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops foxed, bookseller sticker on . rear endpaper.. 1974. Hardcover. 0517516004 . Brown cloth. Foreword, black and white illustrations, and short author bio. Roderick Haig-Brown, observing with the trained eye of the naturalist what he records with a novelist skill, here sets forth the dramatic life history of one salmon from her hatching through her mating - the fulfillment of her life cycle. (rear jacket flap). Sportsman's Classic series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages .