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Swimming Upstream: One man's fight to save the Atlantic wild salmon (Hardback)
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Swimming Upstream: One man's fight to save the Atlantic wild salmon (Hardback)

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Hardback 248 Pages
Published: 21/10/2024
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‘Unlike me, the Atlantic wild salmon does not have a voice, so it cannot tell the story of why and how it has been driven to the point of extinction.’

Once, the River Shannon was teeming with wild salmon swimming upstream. But when the enormous hydro-electric station at Ardnacrusha was built in 1929, what began as the Free State’s crowning achievement would have a devastating impact on the environment.

In this evocative and thought-provoking memoir, Patsy Peril recalls a life deeply entwined with Irish wildlife and embedded in the history of modern Ireland. From a childhood spent on the water to a national conservation campaign, Patsy has a lifetime of knowledge to share about the wild Atlantic salmon – and a plan to save it.

Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781788494786
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 572 g
Dimensions: 226 x 155 x 24 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

superb book by Patsy Peril about the fate of the salmon & the ecological disaster that is ardnacrusha - Ella McSweeney

It weaves ecological, personal, social, even national, history SO engagingly - Eoghan Daltun

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