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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.

Book details

• Full title: Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman
• Author: Richard Adams Carey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780618056989
• ISBN: 061805698X
• ID: 11443937
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Weight: 395 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 140 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: June 2000

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