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_aHay, John, _d1915-2011 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe run |
| 250 | _aFirst edition | ||
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-10-17 | ||
| 508 | _aSteve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _aThe Run by John Hay is a work of nature writing and natural history written in the mid-20th century. It explores the spring migration of alewives on Cape Cod, weaving close observation with ecology, local history, and culture. Guided by a reflective narrator and figures such as a blunt, protective herring warden, it portrays the fish’s sea-to-pond journey, its perils, and its long ties to human communities. The opening of this work follows the narrator’s March vigil at Brewster’s Herring Run on Stony Brook, moving from raw “waiting weather” and a watchful muskrat to the first lone alewife and then the mass run. He introduces Harry Alexander, the warden, and shifts between scene and context: the anadromous life cycle, age and size patterns, and the fish’s historical place from Indigenous agriculture and Pilgrim survival to smokehouses, weirs, and today’s lobster-bait trade. Vivid set pieces show crowded ladders, fatal leaps at an impassable chute, and gulls thronging the valley, while chapters mix anatomy and senses with puzzling questions of homing, ocean whereabouts, and environmental cues. He traces the brackish plume at Paine’s Creek, witnesses night entries under gull-filled skies, then a brutal daylight hunt where hundreds of gulls intercept fish on the ebb, and concludes with the fish’s back-and-forth ascent at the estuary threshold as salt gives way to fresh. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cGarden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959 |
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| 653 | _aCape Cod (Mass.) | ||
| 653 | _aNatural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod | ||
| 653 | _aAlosa pseudoharengus | ||
| 653 | _aFishes -- Migration | ||
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_aGrose, David, _d1922-2016 |
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