How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest f

These stories memorialize Ota Pavel's childhood in Czechoslovakia--his beloved family, the flash of fish in clear streams, and the annihilation of this world by

Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake sha

“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review Acclaime

In this new book, the unlikely pals -- he's from the land, she's from the sea -- are curious about where the waves go. So they sail away through storm and wind