{"product_id":"the-founding-fish-9780374528836b","title":"The Founding Fish","description":"John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad - Alosa sapidissima - leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee - a shad fisherman himself - recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821443747920,"sku":"9780374528836B","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374528836-l.jpg?v=1785883725","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-founding-fish-9780374528836b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}