The Founding Fish by John McPhee

The Founding Fish

John McPhee

358 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science reflective slow-paced
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John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances up...

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Moods

informative 100%
adventurous 50%
reflective 50%
challenging 25%

Pace

slow 100%

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3.92

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