Totem Salmon: Life Lessons From Another Species (signed uncorrected proof)
Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. The uncorrected proof, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Susan, Freeman House." Uncommon signed. "Part lyrical true-life adventure, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked for two decades to salve on of the last purely native 'races' of salmon in California," in the Mattole River Valley. Freeman House was a member of the diggers and co-founder of the small press Planet Drum Foundation. He was also the founder of the Mattole River Council. He was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship after this book, which won awards from San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewer’s Association and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Glowing blurbs from Gary Snyder, Peter Coyote, and Richard Nelson. Original wraps with cover in black and white. Letter from executive director of the press on the first page. A very good copy with a touch of edgewear, a few faint spots of yellow on the slamon's cheek on the front wrap, and the slightest of waves to text block. Very good. Item #2289
ISBN: 0807085480
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"An environmental organizer and former commercial salmon fisherman describes the process through which a determined group of local activists worked to save one of the last purely native races of salmon in California, in the process revealing much about the region's natural history, as well as social and philosophical issues."
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