The Longshoreman: A Life At The Water's Edge by Richard Shelton

Fish have been a lifelong obsession for Richard Shelton. As a boy in the 1940s, he was fascinated by what he found in the streams near his Buckinghamshire home. But it was the sea and the creatures living in it and by it which were to become his passion. The Longshoreman follows the author from stream to river, from pond to lake and loch, from shore to deep sea, on a journey from childhood to an adulthood spent in boats in conditions fair and foul. Along the way, this wonderful book introduces us to strange characters and the intimate habits of lobsters; it also explains what it's like to be a lantern fish; how some fish commute between the surface and the darkest depths, when the laws of physics say they should be crushed to death; and the fate of the wild salmon, that heroic fish whose future is now imperilled by its farmed relatives. This 2005 Atlantic Books, Limited Paperback is in good condition. Some foxing to inside cover page and text block edge.

ISBN: 9781843541622 SKU: 1580148 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1580148
Location: Biography