Salar the Salmon is a 1935 novel by the English writer Henry Williamson. It follows a five-year-old salmon during his spring run, as he enters the Bristol Channel and ends up in Exmoor. Kirkus Reviews wrote: "There is no humanizing of the salmon, no fantasy element, but simply a dramatic story of what one feels actually happens from the time a salmon deserts his Atlantic feeding grounds for the inland waterways." Peter Coates, in his book Salmon (2006), called it "the finest salmon novel in English".
References
Further reading Bunten, Peter John (2018). Henry Williamson and the Lives of Animals (PDF) (PhD). University of Exeter. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
External links The Henry Williamson Society

