The Philosopher Fish Sturgeon, Caviar, and

A high-stakes cocktail of business, crime, diplomacy, technology, and the dilemmas of conservation, The Philosopher Fish is the epic story of a 250-million-year-old fish struggling to survive.

Richard Adams Carey is the author of Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman, a nonfiction chronicle of the 1995-96 fishing season in the lives of four Cape Cod commercial fishermen, among other works.

Prologue	p. xi
The Hero Descending	p. 1
The World Is Not Enough	p. 31
Flavors of the Divine Horizon	p. 55
The People of the Sturgeon	p. 75
Situation Unpleasant	p. 95
A City of Water	p. 121
Poor Man's Lobster	p. 145
Russian California	p. 165
A Poetry of Place	p. 183
The Iron in the Garden	p. 203
Thieves World	p. 225
The Blood of the Earth	p. 241
A Capacity for Wonder	p. 265
The Gilded Morsel	p. 285
Epilogue	p. 301
Acknowledgments	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 321
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The Philosopher Fish Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire

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