The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America

Author:   H. Bruce Franklin
Publisher:   Island Press
Edition:   Revised ed.
ISBN:  

9781597265072


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 February 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   H. Bruce Franklin
Publisher:   Island Press
Imprint:   Island Press
Edition:   Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9781597265072


ISBN 10:   1597265071
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 February 2009
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Franklin's book on the runty menhaden is a killer whale achievement. - BALTIMORE SUN Franklin's prose is lucid and infused with an urgency that depends little on hyperbole and largely on careful documentation. His compelling narrative informs and enlightens. - WASHINGTON POST An optimistic book.... Perhaps this story will have a positive ending; H. Bruce Franklin's fascinating account makes us look forward to that. - DANIEL PAULY IN SCIENCE A knock-out fish story. - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER


"""Franklin's book on the runty menhaden is a killer whale achievement."" - BALTIMORE SUN ""Franklin's prose is lucid and infused with an urgency that depends little on hyperbole and largely on careful documentation. His compelling narrative informs and enlightens."" - WASHINGTON POST ""An optimistic book.... Perhaps this story will have a positive ending; H. Bruce Franklin's fascinating account makes us look forward to that."" - DANIEL PAULY IN SCIENCE ""A knock-out fish story."" - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"""


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H. Bruce Franklin is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University - Newark. He has authored or edited eighteen books, including War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination and Vietnam and Other American Fantasies. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Science, The Nation, Discover, and many other publications.

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