Stronghold : one man's quest to save the world's wild salmon

Summary: Environmentalists Guido Rahr has dedicated his life to saving the environment, working to preserve the world's last pristine stronghold habitat for salmon in Russia's Far East-- a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil, gas, minerals, and timber in the Putin era. He believes that the fate of the salmon is linked with the fate of humanity, as they contribute in essential ways to our own habitat. Malarkey reveals the astonishing natural history of the salmon, while also providing a fascinating narrative that takes the reader to remote, inhospitable terrain and into the world of Russian oligarchs, corrupt officials, and impenetrable bureaucracies.

Record details

ISBN: 9781984801692
ISBN: 1984801694
Physical Description: print
xx, 344 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-344).

Formatted Contents Note:

The first stronghold -- Tumbling downstream -- The briny estuary -- The city -- Scaling the ivory tower -- Of maps and math -- Russia-- the first glimpse -- Oregon trout -- Catching Lee -- Cold War warriors -- Tiger by the tail -- The Krutogorova -- At the river's bottom -- Truth and beauty -- A perfect stronghold -- Deeper codes -- The right river -- Big fish -- The human ecosystem -- The human factor -- State of the salmon -- An ocean shared -- Oceans and markets -- The oligarchs -- The inner sanctum -- The taimen code -- The dispossessed -- The apex predators -- The Tugur -- Going forward.