Fishes: Their Journeys and Migrations

In elegant prose, Louis Roule, renowned naturalist, probes the questions that have long intrigued fisherfolk; What drives salmon to swim upstream? Why do European eels cross the Atlantic to lay their eggs? Why do herring gather in shoals? Roule's exemplary book of 1933 also provides us with a rare historical perspective that shows the sweeping, often disastrous impact of human intervention on the marine world. More that just an engaging work of nature writing, this book is a uniquely informed appreciation of underwater life and a benchmark to help us restore the harmony of humankind and nature in the sea and on land.