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Pre-Owned Against The Tide HCDJ 1999 1st Ed Signed Richard Adams Carey 379I
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780395765302
- Book Title
- Against the Tide : the Fate of the New England Fisherman
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Référence Publishers
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Animals / Fish, General, Fishing
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 21 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 382 Pages
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The world of the independent fisherman is a world 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's a way of life deep in the American grain. Richard Adams Carey spent a year with four New England fisherman, hauling traps, seeding clam beds, learning their work and why they do it. He tells of their luck, good and bad, on the water; of the winds and tides that toy with their boats and their lives; of the currents of history and the squalls of fisheries law and politics that continually threaten to swamp their livelihood. Reminiscent of the work of both John McPhee and Bill McKibben, Against the Tide is narrative journalism at its best, a masterly profile of four working men that on every page opens into something more: maritime history, marine ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Référence Publishers
ISBN-10
0395765307
ISBN-13
9780395765302
eBay Product ID (ePID)
780744
Product Key Features
Book Title
Against the Tide : the Fate of the New England Fisherman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Fish, General, Fishing
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
382 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd8039.F66u474 1999
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
Reviews
"A very fine and engaging book.... The world's fisheries are invisible, held secret beneath the sea. This vivid inside look helps bring them to the surface--the hopes, dreams, fears, hard work, and of course the biology that undergird this ancient profession." -- Bill McKibben, "Like many kids fortunate enough to spend summers by the shore, writer/journalist Richard Adams Carey grew up with a healthy respect for fishermen and the sea, "a world of astonishing color and shape and texture, of surprise and a perceptible knife-edge of menace." During the '90s, when headlines described the demise of New England's small-boat family fishermen, he decided to head back to Cape Cod to learn what he could about a threatened way of life and the forces--political, commercial, ecological--which imperil the survival of the fish the industry depends on. To this end, he spent a year working alongside four veterans of the Cape's inshore waters: a crewmate on a dragger (a boat that catches groundfish with a dragnet towed along the ocean bottom); a lobsterman; a long-liner (who sets quarter-mile or longer fishing lines sporting baited hooks every three feet); and a quahog dredger (essentially a clammer who harvests in bulk). Carey deftly weaves the details of their hard-won, unpredictable lives with passages on local and global fishing history, the minutiae of national and regional legislation severely regulating the fishing industry, the vicissitudes of the weather, and a smattering of stories and anecdotes. Throughout colonial times, for instance, fishermen regularly caught lobsters 4 feet long and weighing 45 pounds! Such an ancient, sizable creature is nearly inconceivable today.Despite the tenacity of the men he fished with, Carey acknowledges that the owner-operators of reminds us that the issues deciding their fate concern us all: "how to tap this continent's wealth without plundering and despoiling it; how to reconcile our hard-wired demand for growth and consumption with a husbandman's concern for sustainability; how to mark our limits and resolutely stay within them.", Against the Tide is worth reading for his depiction of [fishermen] and their threatened communities. The portraits remind us that, in resource management at least, the best solution, as well as evidence of the gravest damage, may be found in the small picture., This book should be read for its balanced portrayal of a New England fishery, but more than that it exemplifies the classic conflict between natural and human resources. Yes, it is true that certain kinds of fishing are very destructive. But Carey is also a humanist and a journalist of considerable depth, who weaves the fate of men and fish together into a whole story.
Table of Content
Prologue 1 Siegfried's Fabulous Horde 12 Ivy Day in the Committee Room 46 Not as Bad as They're Crying It to Be 75 The Ghost of Harry Hunt 99 Wampum 123 Piss and Vinegar 140 The Solace of Outward Objects 146 Terminator Run 155 Always Hopefully 178 A Sea of Troubles 201 Another Fire Drill 218 The True Atlantic House 244 In Cod We Trust 284 Men's Lives 320 Epilogue 356 Glossary 367 Notes 369 Bibliography 376 Acknowledgments 380
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-018146
Dewey Decimal
338.3/727/0974492
Dewey Edition
21
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