Salar the Salmon - Hardcover

Henry Williamson; Introduction By Richard Williamson; Illustrations Nad Foreword By Michael Noakes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863501524 ISBN 13: 9780863501524

Publisher: Webb & Bower (Publishers) Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

In Latin "salar" means "leaper" and to the Romans who first came to England the name perfectly described the magnificent sea-run salmon that fought their way up rivers and streams.In Henry Williamson's great nature story, Salar is a five-year-old salmon returning to the stream of his birth. He faces great dangers, cruising lampreys, poachers with their cruel nets and spears, sharp-eyed otters, cascading falls, all between Salar and his goal in the spawning sands.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Williamson's (1895-1977) charming tale of a salmon's final journey upstream uses varied perspectives, animal and human, to construct a view of nature that is persuasive in its exquisite detail. Salar , originally published in Britain in 1935, is populated with characters such as Gralaks, "a young maiden salmon"; Trutta, a great spotted sea trout; Old Nog the heron; and even some people--poachers and water-bailiffs constantly on the lookout for each other. The animals inhabit a natural kingdom of beauty, but also one of pain and death: a sea bird's feathers are damaged when it surfaces through a slick of crude petroleum; a lamprey latches onto Salar's side, sucking out the fish's blood until it, in turn, is attacked by a predator; a salmon on its way back to the sea after spawning is killed by a young boy with his father's fishing rod. British artist Loates's sensitive new illustrations of the Devon setting (both color and black and white) complement the text without overwhelming it. Williamson wrote Tarka the Otter.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Webb & Bower (Publishers) Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0863501524
• ISBN 13: 9780863501524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Michael Noakes