Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

by David James Duncan, Dick Hill

This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a secluded cabin on a remote riverbank to pursue his own fly-fishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss,... (more)

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Salmon of Doubt

Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

by Douglas Adams

On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy—which includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfiction—Douglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers,... (more)

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (A Harvest Book)

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (A Harvest Book)

by Umberto Eco, William Woys Weaver

A collection of absurd and playful potshots by the author of The Name of the Rose includes essays on militarism, computerese, art, bureaucracy, health, airplane food, bad coffee, taxi drivers, fax machines, porno films, football fans, and other intriguing topics. 30,000 first printing.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book 6

The Erstaz Elevator

by Lemony Snicket

Dear Reader, If you have just picked up this particular book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Like the previous books in A Series of Unfortunate Events, there is nothing to be found in these pages but misery, despair, and discomfort, and you still have time to choose something else to read. Within the chapters of this story, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire encounter a darkened staircase, a... (more)

Salmon Doubts

by Adam Sacks

Beautifully illustrated and deeply imaginative, the cast of conversing fish in Salmon Doubts philosophize about the meaning of life as they make their ultimate journey upstream to spawn. With lushly-rendered artwork, uproarious humor, intricately imagined settings, and striking, inventive page layouts, Adam Sacks envelops readers with his genius. The characters in Salmon Doubts fall outside the conventions of the... (more)

Dr. Perricone's 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health, and Longevity

Dr. Perricone's 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health, and Longevity

The Miracle of Cellular Rejuvenation

by Nicholas Perricone

He has shown us how to smooth our wrinkles, and helped us slim down without feeling deprived. Now #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Nicholas Perricone gives us an anti-aging program that unveils the miracle of cellular rejuvenation. These seven powerful strategies are not only easy to follow but present a plan for total health designed to help us look and feel great by age-proofing us from the inside out. ... (more)

Salmon Stream (Sharing Nature With Children Book)

Salmon Stream (Sharing Nature With Children Book)

by Carol Reed-Jones

The reader of Salmon Stream follows the life cycle of these remarkable fish--hatching from eggs in a stream followed by a life in the wide ocean, and eventually making a hazardous journey home to their stream of origin. As in her earlier best-selling book, The Tree in the Ancient Forest, author Carol Reed-Jones uses cumulative verse--a literary technique that is not only enjoyable but suggests how interconnected... (more)

Strange Encounters: Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist

Strange Encounters: Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist

by Daniel B. Botkin

The warm, witty anecdotal adventures of a world-renowned scientist, spanning thirty years and dozens of countries. Most people only dream of having the life Daniel B. Botkin has led. He has studied whales and elephants, tramped over high mountain passes and through rain forests, worked with NASA, and spent substantial time walking in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, and Henry David Thoreau. In Strange... (more)

King Of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run Of Salmon

King Of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run Of Salmon

by David R. Montgomery

A passionate recounting of the natural history of the rise and fall of salmon in England, New England, and the Pacific Northwest-with recommendations for bringing the salmon back. The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region,... (more)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

by Paul Torday

Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-aged scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London when he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd, catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work on it. His diaries of the... (more)

Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

The fluidity of transboundary waters perfectly represents contemporary challenges to modern governance. This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity. Depending on context, water may be a security issue, a gift of nature, a product of imagination, or an integral part of... (more)

Salmon Nation : People and Fish at the Edge

Salmon Nation : People and Fish at the Edge

Salmon Nation takes you behind the headlines in the company of six knowledgeable guides to a deeper understanding of the most celebrated fish of western North America. Thoughtful essays by Native American writer Elizabeth Woody, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich, journalist Richard Manning, former commercial fisherman Freeman House, and writer Seth Zuckerman trace the relationship between people and salmon from... (more)

On Love and Animals

by Maxwell MacPherson Jr.

The central theme around which On Love and Animals winds is of a young man's experiences with various forms of wildlife and other animals. Another theme that runs along with the animal story is the love affair of Alex Samuels with his girlfriend Bess Walton and, for a short time, his love of Bess' sister, Abigail. Fishing, hunting, animal husbandry, and just plain animal observation are a constant thread... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: salmon