Against the Tide : The Fate of the New England Fisherman
by Carey, Richard Adams
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395765307
- ISBN 13
- 9780395765302
- Seller
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south dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wayward Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011957
- Title
- Against the Tide : The Fate of the New England Fisherman
- Author
- Carey, Richard Adams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0395765307
- ISBN 13
- 9780395765302
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- CAPE COD (MASS.)_BIOGRAPHY FISHERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cape Cod and the Islands;
Terms of Sale
Wayward Books
About the Seller
Wayward Books
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Specialities are: Steinbeck, Vietnam War Literature, Cape Cod and the Islands, Melville, Thomas Merton, Signed First Editions.
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