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The Founding Fish

John McPhee

A long-awaited new book by the nonfiction master, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Few fish are as beloved-or as obsessed over-as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in...

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The MeatEater Podcast

It was described as an American history book about the American shad fish and how it was relied upon by people on the American coast. A story from Daniel Boone's biography was mentioned in relation to the abundance of shad.

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McPhee's book, John McPhee's book, The Founding Fish is just sort of like an American history, but about that fish and sort of the degree to which people on the American coast relied on the shad fishe...

— Episode: Ep. 127: Grays Harbor

Episode: Ep. 127: Grays Harbor

It was described as an American history book about the American shad fish and how it was relied upon by people on the American coast. A story from Daniel Boone's biography was mentioned in relation to the abundance of shad.

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McPhee's book, John McPhee's book, The Founding Fish is just sort of like an American history, but about that fish and sort of the degree to which people on the American coast relied on the shad fishery.

And there's things in Daniel Boone's biography even where... Daniel Boone, someone came and notified... No, it was Daniel Boone's family. This came from Boone's son later told him... Daniel Boone's son was later interviewed and he was telling a story about his father and mother.

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