Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman

With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation...
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Author: Richard Adams Carey
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Language: English
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Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman by Carey, Richard Adams

Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman

€28,32

Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman

€28,32
Author: Richard Adams Carey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert knowledge, of calculated risk and self-reliance -- and of freedom won daily through backbreaking, solitary work. It is a way of life deep in the American grain.
Haunted by the numbers of family fishermen who have recently been forced to abandon the profession, Richard Adams Carey spent a year among a handful of men who stubbornly refuse to do so. Reminiscent of the work of William Warner and Joseph Mitchell, AGAINST THE TIDE is a masterly profile of four New England fishermen in which every page opens onto something more profound: maritime history, maritime ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.

Author: Richard Adams Carey
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/15/2000
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.50w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780618056989

About the Author
Carey, Richard Adams: - Richard Adams Carey was born in Connecticut and educated at Harvard College. After his graduation, in 1973, he went to work in a northwestern sawmill, and he has since divided his time between Alaska and New England.

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