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The run
John Hay and David Grose
Each spring the alewives run upriver to spawn, and John Hay watches the ancient urge unfold. His chronicle of the run follows the fish from waiting weather to arrival, weaving natural history with reflection. Spare, luminous, and deeply felt. A meditation on one of nature's oldest migrations by a master of the essay. Wait by the river for the alewives and the mystery of their return.
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22 chapters
- 1The Run
- 2JOHN HAY
- 3FOREWORD
- 4CONTENTS
- 5I Waiting Weather
- 6II Arrival
- 7III Dried Fish: An Informal History
- 8IV The Reproductive Urge
- 9V The Nature of an Alewife
- 10VI Puzzles and Speculations
- 11VII Port of Entry
- 12VIII The Common Night
- 13IX The Hunt
- 14X Transition: Salt and Fresh
- 15XI Up the Valley
- 16XII The Imperfect Ladder
- 17XIII Persistence
- 18XIV Spawning: the Dance
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