LA Times 2013

LA Times 2013

Books Featuring Rene

Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon From River to Table.

Langdon Cook

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food: salmon.

“Invigorating . . . At the heart of Upstream is a journey—the oldest shape in literature. . . . In tracing the history and life cycle of these iconic creatures, Mr. Cook embarks on a series of his own journeys—fourteen nicely episodic chapters that explore how and where such fish still survive in the modern world, despite the threats of logging, dams, the diversion of running water for domestic and commercial uses, overfishing, and climate change. It is a saga that has been told before but seldom with such immediacy and panache. . . . Throughout these sorties, Mr. Cook is a congenial and intrepid companion, happily hiking into hinterlands and snorkeling in headwaters. Along the way we learn about filleting techniques, native cooking methods and self-pollinating almond trees, and his continual curiosity ensures that the narrative unfurls gradually, like a long spey cast. . . . With a pedigree that includes Mark Kurlansky, John McPhee and Roderick Haig-Brown, Mr. Cook’s style is suitably fluent, an occasional phrase flashing like a flank in the current. . . . For all its rehearsal of the perils and vicissitudes facing Pacific salmon, Upstream remains a celebration.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Exposing striking human-salmon parallels, these stories tell of settlement and cultural clashes, of life cycles and migrations, of deforestation and industrial agriculture, of racism and gentrification, and [Langdon] Cook skillfully illustrates the interconnectedness of it all. Seeking the wild in a landscape fraught with man-made alteration and annihilation, the author interrogates the nature of wildness, posing urgent, provocative questions. . . . Blurring boundaries and complicating the oversimplified, Cook provides a moving, artfully layered story of strength and vulnerability, offering glimpses of hope for growing humility and reverence and for shifting human-nature relationships.”—Kirkus Reviews

Penguin Random House 2017. 336P. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/248166/upstream-by-langdon-cook/9781101882887/

 

Author: Langdon Cook

Author: Langdon Cook

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Authored by Rene

Rene Henery and Joanna Macy - Bioneers

Rene Henery and Joanna Macy - Bioneers

Select Presentations

  •  Equity, Belonging, and Law as a Healing Practice - (Keynote) California Water Law Symposium (2023)

  • Of Salmon and People: Tending to Nature, Tending Ourselves - (Keynote) 38th Annual Salmonid Restoration Federation Conference (2021)

  • Deep Restoration: The Work Outside and the Work Inside – Salmonid Restoration Federation Webinar Series (2020)

  • The Opportunity of floodplain Habitat Quantification - 10th Annual Bay-Delta Science Conference – Sacramento, CA. (2018)

  • Leading from the Emerging Future: Uniting Systems Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Presence (with: Joanna Macy, and Shilpa Jain) – 28th Annual National Bioneers Conference – San Rafael, CA. (2017)

  • Bringing Diversity to the Conservation of Biodiversity – Environmental Grantmakers Association, Fall Retreat – Jackson, WY. (2016)