QUEEN OF THE RIVER. By Roy Saunders.

# 1961 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp160. B/w photographs. Stone-coloured boards, spine titled in red.

"This is the story of a Canadian atlantic salmon on its third journey to spawn in a mountain river above the wild forests of New Brunswick. A fish-counting fence has been set up in the path of the running salmon, and a naturalist begins the work of marking all passing salmon for further identification in their wanderings. His meeting with the giant third-spawner is inevitable...".