King Of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run Of Salmon
- ISBN-10
- 0813342996
- ISBN-13
- 9780813342993
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-12-28
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Author
- David R. Montgomery
Description
A natural history of the rise and fall of salmon in England, New England, and the Pacific Northwest cites the roles of the regions' changing landscapes and experimentation in the evolution and near-extinction of the species.
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