Kings of the Yukon
A River Journey in Search of the Chinook
"Travel writing? Climate change? Here's a book that does it all. . . . [Weymouth] writes like Annie Dillard, Bruce Chatwin and Jack London combined: suspenseful and sensitive storytelling and sumptuous descriptions." --National Observer
The Yukon River is 3,190 kilometres long, flowing northwest from British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, millions of salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning ground, where they go to breed and then die. The Chinook is the most highly prized among the five species of Pacific salmon for its large size and rich, healthy oils. It has long since formed the lifeblood of the economy and culture along the Yukon--there are few communities that have…
$21.00
May 7, 2019
ADAM WEYMOUTH is a freelance journalist and has written for wide ranging publications including The Guardian, the BBC, The Atlantic, Arena and the Lacuna. Adam became hooked on Alaska and its rich cultural, historical and ecological history after being awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to investigate the human impacts of resource extraction and climate change in 2013. This passion has resulted in Kings of the Yukon, Adam’s debut book, which was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. Adam also won the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award in 2018. Adam lives on a narrowboat in London and continues to travel extensively.
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