Overview

As a boy in the 1940s, Richard Shelton was fascinated by what he found in the streams near his Buckinghamshire home. But it was the sea and its inhabitants which were to become his livelihood and his abiding passion. The Longshoreman, which was received rapturously upon publication, is an eloquent portrait of the natural world and an unforgettable meditation on our changing relationship to it.

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9781843541622

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'A treasure... Richard Shelton writes of fish with the pen of a poet... The beauties and oddities of the shoreline and the marine world are brought before our eyes in vivid colour and with scientific precision... A delightful book.' Margaret Drabble, Country Life

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Richard Shelton headed the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory at Pitlochry from 1982 to 2001, and was Research Director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust. The Longshoreman was his first book and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

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