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Salmon audiobook

  • By: Mark Kurlansky
  • Narrator: Mark Kurlansky
  • Category: Animals, Fish, Nature
  • Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
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Salmon Audiobook Summary

In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and CodThe Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon.

During his research Kurlansky traveled widely and observed salmon and those who both pursue and protect them in the Pacific and the Atlantic, in Ireland, Norway, Iceland, Japan, and even the robust but not as frequently visited Kamchatka Peninsula. This world tour reveals an eras-long history of man’s misdirected attempts to manipulate salmon and its environments for his own benefit and gain, whether for entertainment or to harvest food.

In addition, Kurlansky’s research shows that all over the world these fish, uniquely connected to both marine and terrestrial ecology as well as fresh and salt water, are a natural barometer for the health of the planet. He documents that for centuries man’s greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, are evidenced in the sensitive life cycle of salmon.

Kurlansky’s insightful conclusion is that the only way to save salmon is to save the planet and, at the same time, the only way to save the planet is to save the mighty, heroic salmon.

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Salmon Full Details

Narrator Mark Kurlansky
Length 10 hours 38 minutes
Author Mark Kurlansky
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 27, 2024
ISBN 9780593293843

Subjects

The publisher of the Salmon is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: nature, animals, innovation, ocean, science books, animal books, fish, oceanography, earth, wildlife, earth science, gifts for history buffs, science book, nature books, history, history books, science, ocean waves, ocean animals, science gifts, science gifts for adults, ocean book, history of science, history gifts, history teacher gifts, science books for adults, animal lover gifts, history buff gifts, earth book, nature lover gifts, gifts for animal lovers, earth history, history lovers gifts, biography, physics, historical, Nature, Animals, Fish, Science, Earth Sciences, General, Science, History The BISAC Subject Code is Animals, Fish, Nature

Additional info

The publisher of the Salmon is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593293843.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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