Against the Tide - The Fate of the New England Fisherman

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Adams Carey
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2000
• EAN: 9780618056989
• ISBN: 978-0-618-05698-9
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Applied ecology, Local History, Environmental Management, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Nature and the natural world: general interest, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Environmental science, engineering and technology, US Northeast: New England, Wildlife: aquatic creatures: general interest, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Forests and woodland, Zoology: fishes (ichthyology), NATURE: Essays, NATURE: Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Ecology, NATURE: Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, NATURE: Animals / Marine Life, NATURE: Animals / Fish, NATURE: Regional, NATURE: Ecology, NATURE: Natural Resources