The Smell Learned Before the Sea
Eight Journeys Home and the Hidden Sense That Guides Them (Book Two)By Rowan Cassidy
Length35m
About this audiobook
The second of two volumes on the salmon's astonishing journey home. Here are four more salmon and the deeper meaning of return: an Atlantic salmon reading a map its own childhood self recorded on the way to sea, a cherry salmon drawn back not only to a place but to its own kind, a pink salmon navigating a canyon in flood through an organ of pure scent, and a sockeye that climbs to the headwaters to spend its body and feed the very river that made it. Written for the ear, each piece places you on the bank, in the current, and inside the animal. A meditation on imprinting, kinship, and what it means to belong to a place.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Smell Learned Before the Sea
2What the Young Ones Leave Behind
3The Rosette Behind the Eyes
4The Last Mile Upstream
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