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Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman
Contributor(s): Carey, Richard Adams (Author)

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 ISBN: 061805698X     ISBN-13: 9780618056989
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2000
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Fisheries & Aquaculture
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- Nature | Natural Resources
Dewey: 338.372
LCCN: 99018146
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.5" W x 8.36" L (0.87 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - New England
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Topical - Ecology
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): 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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