Salar the Salmon (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Williamson
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: The Two Rivers, Southern England
- Principal Characters: Salar, Gralaks, Trutta, Shiner, Old Nog, Jarrk, Petromyzon, Garroo, Orca
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature, Pastoral
- Subjects: Nature, 1930’s, England or English people, Rivers or waterways, Fishing or fishermen, Mortality, Animals, Fishes
- Locales: England
Two forces dominate the life of Salar, “the Leaper,” as the Romans called the fish. He must eat to live, and he is at the mercy of the elements, for the sea and the river are in continual movement to reduce all life to the components of water and mud, from which the great cycle of life begins anew. Like most fish, Salar is a cannibal who both eats and is eaten. Although the novel opens with a brief summary of the salmon’s life (hatching in a moorland stream, passing down to the ocean, returning to the same moorland stream to spawn), only the return up the river, beginning in...
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