It is now more than ten years since Bruce Brown began the Olympic Peninsula wanderings that led him to write this powerful account of how greed, indifference and environmental mismanagement have threatened the survival of the wild Pacific salmon and, as a result, the region's ecology and its people. Acclaimed by critics who likened it to Coming Into the Country by John McPhee and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , Mountain in the Clouds has become a classic of natural history. As the struggle to protect Northwest salmon ...
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It is now more than ten years since Bruce Brown began the Olympic Peninsula wanderings that led him to write this powerful account of how greed, indifference and environmental mismanagement have threatened the survival of the wild Pacific salmon and, as a result, the region's ecology and its people. Acclaimed by critics who likened it to Coming Into the Country by John McPhee and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , Mountain in the Clouds has become a classic of natural history. As the struggle to protect Northwest salmon runs and the urgency of the fight against environmental deterioration escalates, Mountain in the Clouds remains an important and illuminating story, as timely now as when it was first written.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, Hard Cover. VG in VG tan pictorial price-clipped dj. First printing. 239pp, illustrations. Portrait of an environment in crisis-the plight of the wild salmon of the Pacific Northwest. No remainder marks. Interior clean and unmarked.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. An account by a journalist and naturalist of his journeys along the northwest coast in search of Pacific salmon. Describes how exploitation and man's interference has brought them to near extinction.
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Very Good+ in Fine jacket. Book New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Fine. Very clean beige boards with green cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages are clean and bright; small remainder mark on bottom page edges. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean endpapers. 239 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 vo. Fishing.
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Very Good. Good+ Dust Jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Very good hardcover with good+ DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). 1st printing of 1st edition, with full number line. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Interior appears free of markings. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Unclipped dust jacket has rubbing at edges, light sunning to spine, and some wear at corners. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0671435833. Signed by Author; DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, remainder dot on top and bottom page edges, price-clipped.; A bright, solid book signed by the author on FFEP. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 239 pages; "Bruce Brown's thoughtful study of the decline of the wild Pacific salmon shows that men conquered fish not with 'ingenuity' but with brute force, ignorance and greed. Within a few generations of human settlement, farming, timbering, and commercial fishing had reduced the wild chum runs on most rivers to trickles, and the giant Chinook were no longer to be found. As he documented in the course of three years of research on the rivers of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the salmon are today dying out even in remote areas, their intricate ecology the victim of ocean trawlers, pollution from large logging concerns and the damming and diverting of rivers by power companies....Neither sentimental nor simple, Mountain in the Clouds is a model of ecological history." (NY Times)
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Octavo. 239pp. Page edges modestly soiled, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with spine sunned. Advance Review Copy with publisher's materials laid in. The plight of the wild Pacific salmon.