THE END OF THE RIVER: STRANGLING THE RIO SAO FRANCISCO

Book ID/图书代码： 00110908B22804

English Summary/英文概要： When biologist Brian Harvey saw a thousand fish blundering into a Brazilian dam, he asked the obvious: What’s going to happen to them? The End of the River is the story of his long search for an answer. The End of the River is about people and rivers and the misuse of science. Harvey takes readers from a fisheries patrol boat on the Fraser River to the great Tsukiji fish market in Japan, with stops in the Philippines, Thailand, and assorted South American countries. Finally, in the arid outback of northeast Brazil, against a backdrop of a multi-billion dollar river project nobody seems to want, he finds a small-scale answer to his simple question.

The End of the River is a journey with many companions. Some are literary, some are imaginary. But mostly they’re real characters, human and otherwise: a six-foot endangered catfish, a Canadian professor with a weakness for Thai bar girls, a chain-smoking Brazilian Brunnhilde with a passion for her river, a drug-addled stick-up artist. The End of the River is about fishermen and fish farmers and even fish cops; there are scientists and shysters as well as a few Colombian narcotraficos and some verydrunk, very hairy Brazilian men in thongs.

Funny and sad, The End of the River is a new kind of writing about the environment, as far off the beaten track as you can get in a Land Rover driven by a female Colombian biologist whose favourite expression is "Oops - no road!"

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 詼諧有趣不同於一般知識性生態書籍。Brian Harvey對於環境寫作的創新形式，提供了生態學家對於尋找如何拯救備受水壩威脅的魚類另一種喚醒大眾的方式。
帶領讀者展開一連串的冒險，從加拿大搭乘巡邏船航行到日本最大最知名的魚市場「築地市場」，沿途經過菲律賓、泰國與南美，他的追尋在巴西北部的乾旱內陸，反對一項需耗費高達數百億美元卻似乎沒人想要的河流計畫告終。
在旅途中，有許多十分具有特色的旅伴，有些是文學的、有些甚至是想像出來的，當然大多數還是真實的人事，如六尺大瀕臨絕種的鯰魚、偏愛泰國酒吧女孩的加拿大教授、駕著Land Rover的哥倫比亞女性生態學家，喜愛到處去的她口頭禪是「哇，沒路了！」、熱愛河流但煙癮極大的巴西女性…這些旅途中遇到的人事物，詼諧有趣有時帶點悲傷的寫作方式，描繪出Brian Harvey對於生態環境出自心底的喜愛與深沈的關懷，自然喚起人們對自然環境的責任。(VC)

Awards/获奖情况：Review: “(Brian Harvey) may have created a new literary genre: science travel writing...We rarely expect a scientist to be a great wordsmith; frequently, we don’t expect him to be comprehensible. But this West Coast fish biologist writes entertainingly in a variety of modes. Travelogue, autobiography, history, and even fantasy romp alongside the biology.”---Quill and Quire.
“Brian Harvey創造了一種新的寫作方式—科學旅行文學…我們很少期待科學家擅長文字描寫，但能夠Brian Harvey將旅行文學、自傳體、歷史等生動有趣地融合入生態學！！”-- Quill & Quire

"A wonderful and engaging read with a samba beat, on the plight of the planet’s living waters. The End of the River is the book Nemo would write if he could. A great way to open peoples’ eyes."---Thomas E. Lovejoy, president, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

"Transports the reader to the riverbank. . . . Those who depend on the river are fortunate to have Harvey as their advocate."---Victoria Times Colonist

About the Author/作者介绍： Brian Harvey is an international policy and practice expert in aquatic biodiversity. He is the founder and former president and executive director of the World Fisheries Trust. He is the coauthor of Migratory Fishes of South America. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia. BRIAN HARVEY has extensive global experience in fisheries management and conservation, and is an international policy and practice expert in aquatic biodiversity. He is the founder of World Fisheries Trust and served as President and Executive Director from 1995 to 2005. A frequent speaker, he has produced several projects to raise public awareness, including Up the Creek, a successful salmon board game.
Brian Harvey資深水生態國際政策與實務專家，曾設立加拿大推動永續漁業的組織World Fisheries Trust，並擔任長達十年（1995至2005）的主席，這個組織主要進行漁業資源調查、保存與生物多樣性研究。Brian Harvey致力於推廣生物多樣性的重要性。作者部落格：http://theendoftheriver.blogspot.com/

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