Sentence examples for upstream journey from inspiring English sources

In 2003, my son-in-law Mark Svenvold and I went through Nesenkeag Falls and Namaskeag Falls and Amoskeag Falls, in an Old Town canoe, tracing the Thoreaus' upstream journey, and while dragging the canoe up the rapids I found myself wondering how many kegs that Budweiser plant could produce in a day.

Larger species, such as king, and those that have longer upstream journeys, tend to store more fat and have more omega-3s.

Katharine Norbury is author of The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream (Bloomsbury, £9.99).

When Alan is kidnapped by the salmon, Mirabelle must journey upstream in order to save him.

On a more serious theme, there's The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury.

The journey upstream of some impressionable young men into a mysterious, challenging interior.

After a few minutes they beat away, dropping into the darkness to recover and then continue their journey upstream.

This summer, Corey Kilgannon of The Times set out to retrace Hudson's trip on his own journey upstream.

This evening, as dusk darkened the river at Kisangani, Mr. Bawe, fresh from his fifth journey upstream, sat slapping mosquitoes on the long, flat back of his vessel.

During the journey upstream, the males turn reddish-maroon and grow hooked noses — called kypes — used in fighting the competition for the ready females.

Katharine Norbury's much-hyped first book, The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream, is a lightly fictionalised travelogue-cum-memoir, that shimmers with allusions to Celtic and mystical Christianity.