"Their Fathers' Work: Casting Nets with the World's Fishermen" by W. McCloskey [book review]
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Field-Naturalist
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0008-3550
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v119i2.138