To sea and back
Subtitle: the heroic life of the Atlantic salmon
By: Richard Shelton
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781843547853
Subjects: Life cycles; Atlantic salmon; Evolution; Aquatic ecology
Description: Richard Shelton combines memoir and deep scientific knowledge to reveal, from the salmon's point of view, both the riverine and marine worlds in which it lives.--[book cover].
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The turning point; title: Home at last; title: At Glamis; title: Field mice for tea; title: The start of a double life; title: At Altries; title: Drinking like a fish; title: Living and learning; title: To know the ocean blue; title: To sea with the smolts; title: Fat is a fishy issue; title: Of bugs and brood stock; title: The hydrographer's fish; title: By Ebrie's bleak banks; title: On lancelets, lampreys. and teleosts; title: Children of the sun; title: Of salmon and sea lords; title: The real meaning of life; title: The pilgrims.