RODERICK HAIG-BROWN. — Le Saumon.

First Edition. Environnement Canada. Service des Peches et des Sciences de la Mer. Ottawa 1974. Version Francaise Sous Le Direction De Fernand Seguin. Ottawa. Environment Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service. 1974. First French language edition. Large Quarto (12 ½ x 8). 79 pp. Stunning color plates showing salmon as a valuable natural resource, especially so for Canada’s aboriginal peoples who depend on the annual return of spawning salmon for their existence. There are colored maps showing the routes salmon travel during their time at sea. Haig-Brown’s compassionate and thoughtful text celebrates salmon and pleads for their continued return to their home rivers. The French language edition is a scarce book, with 100-200 copies published. The book is bound in coarse brown cloth with Bill Reid’s Haida Salmon printed on a paper label on the front cover, and brown titling label printed in gilt on the spine. A nice book. In fine condition.