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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20061215
Author:Christina Patterson; Christopher Hirst &

Salmon

By Peter Coates

REAKTION [pound]12.95 (216pp)

All salmon are "true gentleman", wrote Charles Kingsley in The Water Babies, but in fact they are monomaniacs. Peter Coates begins his fishy tale with a succinct biography: "The salmon's entire life is geared towards a single act of reproduction in the frigid place of its birth." It is thought that salmon achieve this astonishing, fatal return (the longest recorded journey was 5,630km) by utilising celestial navigation, then discovering their home stream by odour. On entering fresh water, the salmon stops eating and undergoes bizarre ...

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