Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, the Last Great Salmon Fishery. - book review

Sierra, May-June, 2002

Photographs by Robert Glenn Ketchum; essay by Bruce Hampton Aperture $50

Salmon created this landscape: For thousands of years, swimming upstream by the millions, they have been food for grizzly and others, ultimately fertilizing the very ground from which their rivers flow. This magnificent volume explains such exuberant biology of salmon country while reveling in its beauty--and wondering about its future.