ISBN: 9780618056989

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, ha… More...

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. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Nature & Wildlife>Regional Nature>Regional Nature, HarperCollins Publishers Core >1<

2000, ISBN: 061805698X

[EAN: 9780618056989], Neubuch, [PU: Houghton Mifflin], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known a… More...

[EAN: 9780618056989], Neubuch, [PU: Houghton Mifflin], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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., Books<

2000, ISBN: 061805698X

Kartoniert / Broschiert, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Houghton Mifflin]

2000, ISBN: 9780618056989

Buch, Softcover, [PU: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)], Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2000