Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman

Carey, Richard Adams

ISBN 10: 0395765307 / ISBN 13: 9780395765302

Edité par Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. N° de réf. du vendeur S21E-00625

Synopsis :

Book by Carey Richard Adams

Présentation de l'éditeur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Against the Tide: The Fate of the New ...
Éditeur : Houghton Mifflin
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette