Elisa Segrave

Fish in troubled waters

Elisa Segrave is enthralled by a description of kayaking from McNeil Lake to the Bering Sea — the longest salmon run in the world

  • Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey

    Adam Weymouth

    Particular Books, pp. 269

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