Tale of a Great White Fish.Tale of a Great White Fish Maggie de Vries de Vries. For some persons thus named use Vries. , author; Renne Benoit, illustrator Greystone Books c/o Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group 2323 Quebeck Street, Suite 201, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4S7 1553651251 $15.95 1-800-367-9692 www.douglas-mcintyre.com Award-winning writer Maggie de Vries and prize-winning illustrator Renne Benoit present Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the Story, a children's picturebook about Big Fish, an ancient sturgeon nearly 177 years old who has dodged death many times, from drainage to disease to the threat of sports fishermen. Now laws protect her and her kind, and keep up hope that humans can help her species to survive. A fascinating tale about survival amid both natural and man-made dangers, Big Fish concludes with a handful of scientific and historic facts about sturgeon. A brief letter by Rick Hansen
CC, OBC, LLD (honoris causa), D.Litt. (honoris causa) (born August 26, 1957) is a Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries. , chairman of the Fraser River Fraser River River, south-central British Columbia, Can. Rising in the Rocky Mountains near Yellowhead Pass, it flows northwest and south nearly to the U.S. border. It then turns west through the Coast Mountains in a spectacular canyon to empty into the Strait of Georgia Sturgeon Conservation Society, rounds out this engaging fishy fish·y adj. fish·i·er, fish·i·est 1. Resembling or suggestive of fish, as in taste or odor. 2. Cold or expressionless: a fishy stare. 3. adventure spanning nearly two centuries. |
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