Run
Observations on the Natural History of the Alewife
Published on 22. November 2019
95 pages
978-1-83974-102-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Run, first published in 1959 and a classic in nature-writing, describes the life-history of the alewife, a small type of herring that spawns in freshwater, travels to the ocean when a fingerling, and then returns to its freshwater birthplace in impressive swarms as an adult. Author John Hay (1915-2011) was a naturalist who spent much of his life on Cape Cod and was the co-founder and long-time president of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings and two maps.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- I. - Waiting Weather
- II. - Arrival
- III. - Dried Fish: An Informal History
- IV. - The Reproductive Urge
- V. - The Nature of an Alewife
- VI. - Puzzles and Speculations
- VII. - Port of Entry
- VIII. - The Common Night
- IX. - The Hunt
- X. - Transition: Salt and Fresh
- XI. - Up the Valley
- XII. - The Imperfect Ladder
- XIII. - Persistence
- XIV. - Spawning: the Dance
- XV. - The Return
- XVI. - The Young Follow After
- XVII. - The Power of Fragility
- XVIII. - Going Out
- MAPS
