Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska - Brossura

Adams, Dean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0295993332 ISBN 13: 9780295993331

Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2013

Riassunto

As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member on theGrant and weaves a tale of adventure that reads like a novel--with drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing, his ragtag shipmates, maritime Alaska, and the ambiguities of family life.

At sea, the Grant's crew teach Dean the daily tasks of baiting thousands of longline hooks and handling the catch, and on shore they lead him through the seedy bars and guilty pleasures of Kodiak. Exhausted by twenty-hour workdays and awed by the ocean's raw power, he observes examples of human courage and vulnerability and emerges with a deeper knowledge of himself and the world.

Four Thousand Hooks is both an absorbing adventure story and a rich ethnography of a way of life and work that has sustained Northwest families for generations. This coming of age story will appeal to readers including young adults and anyone interested in ocean adventures, commercial fishing, maritime life, and the Northwest coast.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dean Adams went on to become the captain of his own fishing boat and to earn bachelor's and master's degrees from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science at the University of Washington. He and his family live in Seattle and Kerikeri, New Zealand.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0295993332
• ISBN 13: 9780295993331
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 270
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile