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**From the award-winning author of *The Mushroom Hunters* comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food: salmon.**For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild--thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV, perhaps. For others, it's the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep red fillet at the market. For others still, it's the jolt of adrenaline on a successful fishing trip. Our fascination with these superlative fish is as old as humanity itself. Long a source of sustenance among native peoples, salmon is now more popular than ever. Fish hatcheries and farms serve modern appetites with a domesticated "product"--while wild runs of salmon dwindle across the globe. How has this once-abundant resource reached this point, and what can we do to safeguard wild populations for future generations? Langdon Cook goes in search of the salmon in *Upstream, * his timely and in-depth look at how these beloved fish have nourished humankind through the ages and why their destiny is so closely tied to our own. Cook journeys up and down salmon country, from the glacial rivers of Alaska to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest to California's drought-stricken C

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Author

Cook, Langdon

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101882900

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Fiction, Stem

Rating

4.19 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14