Against The Tide - Couverture souple

Carey, Richard Adams

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 061805698X ISBN 13 : 9780618056989

Editeur : Mariner, 2000

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 061805698X
• ISBN 13: 9780618056989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
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