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The fish featured on the cover of Learning the bash Shell, Second Edition, is a silver bass, one of the 400-500 species of sea bass. The silver bass, also known as the white perch, is found in freshwater bays and river mouths along the Atlantic coast of North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina, and is most abundant in the Chesapeake region. Silver bass live in large schools and feed on small fishes and crustaceans. Although many bass never stray far from one place their whole lives, silver bass swim upstream to spawn, often becoming landlocked in the process. Like most bass, the silver bass is attracted to bright, shiny objects, and they can be drawn quite close to swimmers and divers in this way.
Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with QuarkXPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font.
The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman and modified by Nancy Priest. It was implemented in gtroff by Lenny Muellner. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created by Chris Reilley and updated in Macromedia Freehand 5.0 for the second edition by Robert Romano. ...
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